The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net
Issues. And president ial candidate Mike Huckabee campaigns in newton iowa. President obama has nominated Lieutenant General Robert Miller to head the u. S. Marine corp. At his Senate Confirmation hearing, members of the Armed Service Committee Questioned general miller about the marine corp budget, military Sexual Assaults, and the militarys strategy in iraq and syria. We want to consider the nomination of Lieutenant General Robert Miller. General miller we thank you for joining us this morning. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service to the nation and for your continued willingness to serve. As our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce any family members that are joining us. As our nation confronts the most diverse and complex array of global crisis, the next commander after more than a decade of war in afghanistan and iraq, our marines have remained in high demand performing a range of services across the globe. Tension gripping
He attacked his mother in the middle of the street and tried to come after officers with the ax. It was two officers that shot the suspect. I dont think there was time to do any time of negotiation. It unfolded very quickly. Police say the son and mother was taken to the hospital. The mother was conscious and speaking at the time. Police dont know the condition of either mom or son. Neighbors recall the chaos this morning. Yeah, just about ten houses down. You should have heard the sirens. It was going crazy. Its right down on lansing right here on lansing avenue by my house. Obviously, this early on in the investigation theres more questions than answers. We spoke to family friend that tells us the 26yearold son was struggling with mental illness. None of the officers who fired their weapons in this incident were injured. Reporting live in san jose, abc 7 news. A correction officers finds himself in jail accused of molesting a young girl. Anthony is accused of molesting the daughter o
And as the senator said, that is something on which congress has demonstrated as recently as the last five or six years that it can come together, and i think it could do it again and in a more aggressive way to get advantage of the opportunities which we now know that we have. Some states have already experienced it and by the way some of the regulars of electricity like california and new york have figured out how to make it attractive to energy providers, electricity providers to provide more efficiency to the ed vintage of the consumer by to reducing rates so there are many things we would be able to agree on and advance the cause of the carbonizing the economy. The diversity of fuel sources as well as efficiency travel parallel to the interest of the environmental policy in my judgment. We did, the congress did agree on the standards and the administration has continued to work in the industry to move those numbers up even more so there is a classic example of how we did something
Released. So this was a functioning system, Good Behavior led to the sanctions, bad behavior, we happened of course quite frequently. Some refusals was met by met by some tough language from the Security Council. Not from the government, israel or anyone. It was the Security Council under the charter of the United Nations that put that pressure. Of course we know that this system worked extremely well. It was 100 performance as a matter of fact. Its not bad for any u. N. Organization to get the task and then i think its probably the only one which succeeded to make it 100 performance. So the that means that both destruction capabilities and the monetary capabilities were forcefully placed. So everything looked shiny and fine until the u. S. Government it was in spring of 1997, through Madeline Albright made the statement at george mason university, well, it looks like sanctions are disarmament is going well. If it goes well we can still not lift the sanctions which was a condition unde