The News & Analysis database contains two types of documents written by Pike & Fischer's legal editors, and experts from The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.: (1) brief articles covering legal, legislative, and business developments in the communications industry; and (2) articles with expanded analysis of important legal and policy decisions handed down by the FCC and federal courts.
Use this field to search for words or phrases in documents within the News & Analysis database. You do not need to use any special punctuation or commands to search for a phrase. Simply enter the phrase the way it ordinarily appears. If a phrase contains a noise word, such as if or the, your search will skip over that word when searching. Use connector, wildcard and stemming tools to fine-tune your results.
| Examples: | congress | |
| spectrum auction | ||
| rf or radiofrequency | ||
| broadband and internet |
back to topUse this field to restrict your search results to documents with a certain date or within a certain date range.
Your search may consist of a group of words or phrases linked by connectors such as and and or that indicate the relationship between them.
| Examples: | apple and pear | « Both words must be present | |
| apple or pear | « Either word can be present | ||
| apple w/5 pear | « Apple must occur within 5 words of pear | ||
| apple not w/5 pear | « Apple must not occur within 5 words of pear | ||
| apple and not pear | « Only apple must be present |
If you use more than one connector, you should use parentheses to indicate precisely what you want to search for. For example, apple and pear or orange juice could mean (apple and pear) or orange, or it could mean apple and (pear or orange).
Noise words, such as if and the, are ignored in searches. » More about connectors
A search word can contain the wildcard characters * and ?. A ? in a word matches any single character, and a * matches any number of characters. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word.
| Examples: | appl* | « would match apple, application, etc. | |
| *cipl* | « would match principle, participle, etc. | ||
| appl? | « would match apply and apple but not apples. | ||
| apple not w/5 pear | « Apple must not occur within 5 words of pear | ||
| ap*ed | « would match applied, approved, etc |
Note that use of the * wildcard character near the beginning of a word may slow search performance.
You may use the ~ character to extend or stem your search to cover grammatical variations on a word.
| Examples: | test~ | « would also find testing | |
| apply~ | « would also find applying, applies, and apply |
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