1.   I was representing a young boy who had been injured playing in the railroad yards on a large cable spool.

2.   But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires.

3.   Almost all large cable companies, however, have plans to offer some video on demand.

4.   But many of the large cable companies, including Time Warner and Tele-Communications Inc., have heavy debt loads.

5.   Cablevision, based in Woodbury, N.Y., is a large cable operator on Long Island but has only a small presence in New York City.

6.   Cablevision is the fourth large cable company in two months to agree to offer MSNBC.

7.   Grubman suggested that Time Warner could also enter the venture between Sprint and other large cable operators.

8.   In the wake of the Continental deal, analysts predicted that other large cable operators would likely sell themselves to phone companies.

9.   Industry experts say that the large cable operators, like Comcast Corp. and Cablevision Systems Corp., can negotiate better deals than satellite companies.

10.   Large cable operators say the increasing prices mostly reflect the rising cost of programming.