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Canadian regulators, to their discredit, allowed what they call Usage Based Billing UBB, despite the strident protest over the practice.
Art Brodsky: Internet Rationing Latest Threat to Watching Video Online Art Brodsky 2011
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Canadian regulators, to their discredit, allowed what they call Usage Based Billing UBB, despite the strident protest over the practice.
Art Brodsky: Internet Rationing Latest Threat to Watching Video Online Art Brodsky 2011
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Canadian regulators, to their discredit, allowed what they call Usage Based Billing UBB, despite the strident protest over the practice.
Art Brodsky: Internet Rationing Latest Threat to Watching Video Online Art Brodsky 2011
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Canadian regulators, to their discredit, allowed what they call Usage Based Billing UBB, despite the strident protest over the practice.
Art Brodsky: Internet Rationing Latest Threat to Watching Video Online Art Brodsky 2011
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Some decades ago, Eric Partridge noted in Usage and Abusage that orientate is correct as an intransitive (“to face in a particular direction”), but that orient is preferable in all other senses.
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Usage is up to 90% in some developing economies, and there doesn't seem to be large gender or income gaps in usage.
Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D 2009
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Usage is determined by consensus, as in this country. anon Says:
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Usage is charged at about 3 cents per hour, vs. the current 10 cents per hour.
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Bryan A. Garner in A Dictionary of Modern American Usage is equally severe, instructing that not only ... but (also) “must frame syntactically identical sentence parts”.
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Eric Partridge, in Usage and Abusage, sticks to the narrow definition (‘a word misused’) and cites two examples (anachronism for anomaly, to subject for to subordinate) before writing that because his book deals with the commonest catachreses in the language, a lengthy entry on catachresis per se is unnecessary.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009
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