Word: belle
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...video service that will let viewers receive movies on demand and shop from home. AT&T is also discussing a partnership with the nation's largest cable-TV operator, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). Says AT&T chairman and chief executive Robert Allen: "This ain't Ma Bell...
While it may no longer be Ma Bell, AT&T continues to have Bell-size ambitions. The ultimate goal of the old AT&T was to serve as the primary information pipeline into every U.S. home and business. But in 1984 the company was forced by a federal court to spin off the regional Bell operating companies, or Baby Bells, which own most of the nation's local phone lines. AT&T still has its grand vision, but instead of concentrating on telephone ^ calls, the company is aiming to become an all-purpose superplayer on the electronic superhighway that will...
...pursuing its 'communacopia' strategy," says Robert Morris III, an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs. "It wants to be the horn of plenty for every conceivable information technology, and be to multimedia what Ma Bell was to telephones." The odds of success, says Morris, are in AT&T's favor: "There is no other company with all the necessary talent, tools and muscle under one roof...
These days, there is a certain resignation to Bell's writings. He seems less interested in fighting racism, whose existence he appears to take for granted, than in attacking attempts by liberal reformers to forcibly engineer social change...
...Bell himself, he thinks it is probably time to make the transition to being a full-time writer. It is in this capacity, not affiliated with any one university, that he feels he will best be able to further his mission--one for which he has sacrificed a great deal