Captain Mike Atherton agreed: 'We really haven't played well.'
The high court turned away an appeal by Palo Alto and Atherton, Calif., which wanted to enforce public access and other rules challenged by cable operator Century Federal Inc.
Palo Alto and Atherton officials said the ruling appears to declare unconstitutional a 1984 federal law regulating cable TV, even though the judge did not say in so many words that he was invalidating the law.
Mr. Atherton said the bank might raise additional capital in various ways, including private or public offerings of preferred stock, subordinated debt or common equity.
Atherton picked up one or two of them for me, a bit uncertainly.
'The one who really got up my nose was Steve Waugh,' Atherton is said to have said.
Real estate agents tried to interest Hammer in mansions in the exclusive suburbs of Atherton, Woodside and Blackhawk, but Hammer considers Fremont home.
But next time disaster strikes, the town's 8,000 residents can use their new radios to listen to KCEA, a non-profit FM station at Menlo Atherton High School.