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...competitors enter the market, rates could ultimately be driven down. Similarly, more competition in local and long-distance phone services should result in lower rates. But the picture is complicated by the fact that any potential provider of local phone service will first have to negotiate with the local Bell company to lease existing phone lines. The Federal Communications Commission will establish rules in the next few months to guide these transactions; the bill requires that local phone companies show they are allowing true competition before they can compete in the long-distance business...
When his lawyers were unable to sign Billy Wilder to direct his screenplay for "The Bell Boy," Lewis said, "I took the next best thing and I was terrific...
Carswell finally pulled ahead on the bell lap and barrelled through the finish in a time of 9:48.47, compared to Rice...
...addition, there is the issue of motivation. While for many, the cliche, this is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you" probably rings a bell, one wonders how often hands are raised in a calm and rational decision that this is the only way to keep a child from developing bad attitudes. It is more likely that anger and personal frustration are the prime motivations...
...killers, and you make a serious dent in their business. "Most prisoners are violent or repeat offenders," says William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and drug czar. "Prisons do cut crime." Last week Bennett's Council on Crime in America, a commission he co-heads with Griffin Bell, who was Attorney General under Jimmy Carter, issued a report warning that violent crime is still higher than police records indicate because so much of it goes unreported. They urged even more aggressive jailings...