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...situation wasn't perfect," Harvard receiver Neil Phillips said. "Your footing wasn't perfect, the throws weren't going to be perfect; things were just going to go wrong. You had to adjust to that out there...
...change much like the one from horse-and-carriage days to jet travel." Senior Reporter- Researcher Bernie Baumohl, who also assisted with the story, compares the historic upheaval to the Industrial Revolution. Says he: "The question is Will we -- bankers, brokerage firms and, ultimately, small investors -- be able to adjust...
Karl loves a lot of songs, and music dominates the atmosphere of Tasty late at night. The rhythm sets the working pace and the decibel level controls the frenzy of the crowd. Karl, being a student of music, admits to changing noise levels in order to adjust the crowd. He likes' em frenzied...
...This time, however, taxpayers have begun to evaluate investment schemes from a completely opposite perspective: they will be looking for income instead of losses. Says Klein, the New York dentist: "We have grown up believing that sheltering income against taxation is more important than making money. Now we must adjust to the brave new world in which you keep more of what you make without gimmicks. It's too simple and sensible to be American. It makes you insecure." Newly eager to make profits, investors have begun looking for ways to boost their income, for example, by raising the rent...
...clear advantage that AT&T has enjoyed is its elaborately detailed profiles of virtually every telephone customer in the U.S., amassed during decades of monopoly service. Possession of those records allowed AT&T to adjust its campaign pitch more finely, and at lower cost, than could its rivals, who were allowed under FCC rules to buy customer data from the Baby Bells. MCI estimates that it spent between $10 and $15 to reach each residential customer in the election, more than three times the cost for AT&T. Says Charles Skibo, president of US Sprint: "AT&T had the data...