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common carriage

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common carriage [′käm·ən ′kar·ij]
(electricity)


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This means that because of the media--the Internet, cell phones, television, radio, magazines, newspapers--knowledge has become all-pervasive and virtually common carriage, and it is this collective consciousness that amplifies the impact of celebrities.
If you still plan to have some common carriage (less than fifty percent), keep in mind that only your interstate business flights would count toward the qualifying fifty percent mark, so again, careful tracking of flight usage is necessary to make sure that the use is continuously well above the minimum fifty percent interstate commerce use.
Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America, one of the petitioners, argues that the open access principle is "deeply embedded in the DNA of capitalism," noting that "the existence of competition never excused the obligation for common carriage in other areas--telephone, telegraph, steamship, railroad.
 
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