Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would you like to be AT&T's new president, John Walter? He's walking into a company in the throes of restructuring, and now has to deal with an archrival that just became a heavyweight. AT&T chairman Robert Allen didn't wait long to complain that the playing field is not level. AT&T, he asserted, faces barriers to providing full service in the United Kingdom, where BT controls more than 90% of the local phone connections. Allen urged regulators to make scrutiny of the merger "a global priority of the highest order." In the U.S., where...
DIED. ELEANOR DULLES, 101, head of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk during the cold war 1950s; in Washington. The sister of then Secretary of State John Dulles and then CIA Director Allen Dulles, she helped West Berlin recover from World...
...just about everywhere else. In a shocker, AT&T, the nation's 10th largest company, with estimated 1996 revenues of $51 billion to $52 billion, dialed long distance--to a Midwest commercial printer, of all places--to find John Walter, its new president and heir apparent to CEO Robert Allen, who will retire in 1998, two years early. "When one of the world's largest companies loses its president and can't find anyone inside, what's going on?" asks Sprint CEO William Esrey...
...When Allen Hutchinson dropped out of this race days before the filing deadline, the Missouri G.O.P. appointed Bennett to run. A mother of two, she lost both her father and husband within 10 days during her 1990 city-council campaign: she survived the trauma and won the election. Bennett says her 18 years as a teacher, her time as a single mother and her experience in local government have prepared her for the U.S. House...
...Angeles EDUCATION: Wilberforce U, B.A., 1967; United Theological Seminary, D.Min., 1994 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; four children RELIGION: African Methodist Episcopal MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Minister POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: 114-16A Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica 11434. Tel.: 718-262-9700 As pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church, Flake has easily retained his seat in Congress while building a major community center--including a senior-citizen housing complex and a private Christian school--that employs 800 people. In Congress he champions minority concerns and economic development, and his parishioner-constituents will probably return him to Capitol Hill...