Word: belle
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...headquarters of the confidential AT&T bid documents on the switching devices. Soni allegedly leaked the information to two or more of the regional telephone companies competing against AT&T for the jobs, thus enabling them to tailor their bids accordingly. He reportedly told an official of Southern Bell, a subsidiary of the regional BellSouth company, exactly how much the parent firm would have to bid in order to win. (BellSouth denies adjusting its bids...
...Capitol Hill, Reagan's case for the line-item veto suddenly seems a little more convincing. "I used to think the line-item veto was the stupidest idea in the world," says Stephen Bell, former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. "I was wrong." Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon thinks Congress will eventually be forced to pass the reform. "We're going to be ridiculed into doing it," he says. "I've come to the conclusion that we are not going to be capable of governing ourselves." In discussing the veto, Senator Ted Kennedy recently said something...
...sharply from about 126 yen the day before. The greenback also fetched 1.68 West German marks, vs. 1.63 the previous day. At the New York Stock Exchange, everyone who had been planning to buy stocks if the trade figure was good seemed determined to get in at the opening bell. The Dow Jones industrial average skyrocketed, beginning trade 55 points above Thursday's close of 1916. But the surge ended almost as soon as it had begun, and the market settled into a day of seesaw trading as some investors decided to cash in their profits. The Dow finished...
Fallon McElligott issued apologies to all concerned, but the gesture was too late. One of its biggest accounts, the U S WEST Bell telephone company, now says it will not renew its contract with the agency, valued as high as $10 million annually. The reason: the BITCH, BITCH, BITCH affair. Said a satisfied Schleuning: "This is Fallon McElligott's worst possible nightmare come true. I couldn't have set this one up if I had tried...
...search for new money won't be easy. The state constitution bans a personal income tax, and other revenue raisers are equally unpalatable. "The people of Florida have not yet grasped the enormity of our financial problems," says Sam Bell, chairman of the Florida house appropriations committee. "We're not even talking about improvements here. We're just trying to keep from going under...