Word: belle
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...executives would make executives directly accountable to the people they represent. As it stands now, leaders who have failed the student body time and again can win election to high positions so long as they have enough friends on the council itself. (Does the name "Mike Beys" ring a bell...
Chief among the combatants are the telephone and cable giants that are building rival versions of the information highway. One of these is Bell Atlantic, which plans to spend $11 billion on fiber-optic cable and other equipment to bring two-way TV to 8 million homes by the year 2000. Another is Time Warner, which is neck and neck with TeleCommunications Inc. in the race to be the nation's largest cable company. Time Warner is teaming with U S West to test its notion of a state-of-the-art system in Orlando, Florida, as part...
...dozen such confederations. In addition to the Time Warner/U S West/Silicon Graphics partnership, cable giants TCI, Cox and Comcast have joined forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications) are teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis have been talking with superagent Michael Ovitz about forming...
...these arrangements can also sow tension and slow progress, because they tend to unite friends and foes alike in potentially uncomfortable situations. Bell Atlantic and U S West are building separate electronic highways, for example, even as the two firms are allied in a project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share...
...such reasons, a number of players are hedging their high-stakes bets by both owning and distributing digital fare. ``This isn't about wires in the ground or boxes with 500 channels,'' says William Reddersen, a senior vice president of Bell South, which knows all about wires, electronic switches and things in the ground. ``This race is being driven by packaging, content, entertainment. The system has to be customer-friendly and fun to use. If you want to play this game, you have to send something entertaining down the pipe.'' That is one notion, at least, on which...