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Sponsored by the Department of English and American Literature and Language and the Woodberry Poetry Room, the lecture focused on the motivation and methods of Heaney's current work-in-progress, a translation of the Old English literary behemoth...
...local markets -- and that hasn't happened yet, which is a major hurdle for this merger. But if it's approved, Bell Atlantic, armed with GTE's long-distance service, will have taken a step toward crossover hegemony not seen since pre-breakup AT&T -- and the resultant behemoth would be the nation's second largest phone company, behind its former parent. The FCC just wants to make sure that local giants such as Bell Atlantic provide access to competitors. Otherwise, some of the Baby Bells would turn into Ma -- and Pa -- Bells...
DIED. RICHARD MCDONALD, 89, vending visionary who, with his brother Maurice, started a hamburger chain that became international fast-food behemoth McDonald's Corp; in Manchester, N.H. In 1948 the brothers created the first self-service drive-through, offering speedy service and low prices. As the franchise expanded, Maurice handled operations while Richard focused on marketing, designing the now ubiquitous Golden Arches and the "millions served" placards. In 1961 the brothers sold the business for $2.7 million to Ray Kroc, once their milk-shake mixer salesman...
...first commercial software to link computers to the World Wide Web. Netscape stock jumped from $28 a share to $87 when the company went public in 1995, but it sank to just $15 earlier this year. (Netscape closed at $36 last Friday in the wake of rumors that a behemoth like Time Warner might make a bid for the company. Time Warner denied that it planned to do so.) "There's a lot of momentum buying right now," says Alan Braverman, an Internet analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston. "People go to [Internet] chat rooms" to talk about stocks...
Limited accessibility is not the only problemstudents face when dealing with the UHSmanaged-care behemoth; because they are a medicalservice, many health professionals say UHS has todiagnose students, stamping their file with someclassification...