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...specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion...
...many jabs and pokes and prods surely leave us unfeeling, perhaps dead. In about 40 minutes, Rites attempts to elucidate the broad ideological clashes between a half-dozen groups of women, throwing in for good measure a suicide attempt, demonic chants, the public undressing of a little boy, and an all-out "gender-cide" and cremation. Too much is just too much...
...originally negotiated by George Bush. He let the debate be dominated by Perot and others, principally labor unions who fear a loss of jobs to low- wage Mexican competition. But now the President has made the NAFTA vote one of the defining moments of his Administration and launched an all-out campaign to win. He is opposed by one of the strangest assortments of public figures ever to find themselves in one another's company. Enmity toward NAFTA is perhaps the only thing on which Perot, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson and Pat Buchanan could ever agree...
...hunch that even as recently as 1992, if I had made an all-out effort, I could have won the presidency." -- GEORGE MCGOVERN
Though the divisions among its opponents give the Administration a great selling opportunity, the complexity of its plan makes it less than ideal to explain to a skeptical public. Undaunted, the White House is kicking off an all-out campaign stressing broad themes: universal coverage and portability / and security of coverage -- or, in bumper-sticker language, HEALTH CARE THAT'S ALWAYS THERE. Clinton last week was host to a Rose Garden ceremony, filmed for local TV stations, at which people who had written letters to the White House detailing their health-care troubles read their horror stories aloud...