1.   Back when the country was first being wired for cable, nobody needed to use the full capacity of coaxial cable.

2.   Domination of the Web by Americans is expected to fade as other countries get wired.

3.   Government officials defend the high costs, saying the Post and Telecommunications Corp. had to invest heavily to wire the country.

4.   It may sound old-fashioned, but the public owns the air waves and confers the right to wire the country for cable television.

5.   Ma Bell wired the country.

6.   Some countries are wired, and some are not.

7.   The national and local government officials he met, including the mayor of Beijing, seemed determined to wire the country, he said.

8.   There will be much speculation about the potential for information technology to accelerate development, and much hand-wringing that so many poor countries are not wired.

9.   We drove our new cars across America, and plugged in to the electricity that wired the country.