Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These services, which the clubs currently receive free, include access to the Centrex phone system, steam heating, alumni records, and use of Harvard property...
...profits in the next few years will depend more on its old phone business than its new computers. Critical to the company are off-delayed flat fees for longdistance service, called access charges, that were to go into effect in January but have been stalled by the Government until next year. Says Analyst Mark Luftig of Salomon Bros.: "A T & T's most immediate problem is two words: access charges." Those fees, ranging from $2 for individuals to $6 for small-business users with only one line, would have given $3.5 billion to local phone companies to offset...
...plan seems to its proponents to be a reasonable way of making up for at least part of the loss to local companies of the long-distance subsidies. In an attempt to get the access charges approved, the company has offered to cut long-distance rates by more than 10%, but congressional opposition is strong. Access charges even to larger businesses, scheduled for June, may also be delayed...
While they have nurtured domestic manufacturers, the government policies have also helped to jack up the price of Brazilian computers by limiting competition and access to foreign know-how. "By and large, Brazilian micro-and minicomputers are comparable to other machines on the international market," notes Helio
...public declarations do not explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all male clubs--including the Pi Eta as well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality for women at Harvard...