Michael Powell
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"Michael Latham Powell" was a renowned English people/English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company "Powell and Pressburger/The Archers", they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel (film)/49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (film)/A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948 film)/The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (film)/The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His later controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom (film)/Peeping Tom, however, was so vilified that his career was seriously damaged.

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The benefits of this transaction are considerable; the potential harms negligible.

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Protecting consumers from service disruption is the Federal Communications Commission's first and highest priority.

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Clearly there are very serious stresses on this important industry.

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This merger is particularly challenging to review, not so much because of its size, but because of its novelty, ... It's difficult to grasp the impact on consumers in markets that have barely emerged.

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This market is not collapsing. It is not going to fail over time, ... Communications services remain vital to consumers around the globe.

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Those Americans would be left with only one choice for their subscription video service, now and in the foreseeable future.

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Fascinating though the issues are, and as serious as they are, I believe the Majority has given in too much to their collective imaginations, rather than sound reasoning based on the record, in reaching some of the conditions on the merger.

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We are closely monitoring the situation and are doing everything possible to ensure and protect both the stability of the telecommunications network and the quality of service to consumers.

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In 1996, Congress gave us a very difficult task, which is to bring these rules up to date in the modern media marketplace.

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