Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...factor working in the plaintiffs' favor is that they're starting to get access to the private records of the gun industry. In the past, suits like these were usually dismissed in the early stages. But in the New York case, plaintiffs have been able to conduct discovery, the stage when lawyers wade through the other side's documents. With tobacco, the climate changed abruptly when plaintiff lawyers got hold of papers revealing internal cigarette-company marketing strategy. Lawyers in some of the gun cases hope to come across evidence that manufacturers have marketing strategies designed to move guns into...
...been dispatched to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels to stop shooting and start talking. As he prepares to face the Balkan furies again, Holbrooke sits quietly, looking anxious. "The goal is to prevent a war," he tells TIME, which was given exclusive access to the trip. "But it may be impossible...
...mass layoff of 40,000 employees had failed to boost business, and worst of all, the largest U.S. telephone company (1997 revenues: $51.3 billion) was stuck on the sidelines, while upstarts such as WorldCom and MCI were teaming to deliver everything from long-distance service to high-speed Internet access. "This marvelous industry was growing in double digits globally," Armstrong explains. "The only trouble was, AT&T was not participating in that growth...
...deal, some regulators saw it as a welcome spur to local competition--even as the Baby Bells howled. William E. Kennard, chairman of the FCC, says the merger looks "eminently thinkable." That hardly heartened US West and Bell Atlantic--which last year gobbled up neighboring NYNEX--which demanded access to long-distance markets should the deal go through. So far, Washington has barred the Bells from offering long-distance service to their own local customers on ground that they have not yet opened their "loops" to such rivals as AT&T. But to stick to that stricture after...
...Malone, who is spending $1.8 billion to ready TCI cables for two-way voice and data traffic, the future is virtually here--and it looks astonishingly lucrative. Malone sees an imminent convergence of TV, telephone and computer services--long the grail of digital thinkers--that will allow customers to access all three separately or at once, simply by aiming and clicking a hand-held device at a TV set. Of course, this convergence has seemed "imminent" to Malone for the past half-decade, but new technology--most of it based on the Internet--seems likely to deliver, finally, on these...