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" In its filing , SBC noted that the Commission has recognized that the highly competitive broadband market is dominated by cable providers , yet regulations are unfairly applied to telephone companies while cable and other providers bear no such burdens . " We applaud the Commission 's action to protect customers from MCI 's pattern of deceptive and illegal conduct , " said Carrie Hightman , president , SBC Ameritech Illinois . It should be remembered , however , that when I fell , in the first instance , from the car , if I had fallen with my face turned toward the balloon , instead of turned outwardly from it as it actually was — or if , in the second place , the cord by which I was suspended [ page 14 :] had chanced to hang over the upper edge , instead of through a crevice near the bottom of the car — I say it may readily be conceived that , in either of these supposed cases , I should have been unable to accomplish even as much as I had now accomplished , and the disclosures now made would have been utterly lost to posterity . Each year reported incidents of elder abuse are rising and out of more than 400 senior fraud cases investigated by the Fresno police department last year , 85 percent were incidences of financial abuse . The idea of this plan was broached by a number of influential observers and leaders - - Republican , Democratic and foreign - - to include Senators Lugar , Biden and Hagel in the very weeks before our workshop .