Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should rebound sharply, the regional phone company has no plans to take anyone back. "We've got to be a more efficient, more streamlined operation," declares a company spokesman. "And this is a long-term step toward getting us there." BellSouth is hardly the only phone company cutting back. Bell Atlantic said last week it is eliminating 3,450 positions, or about 5% of its remaining jobs, as part of a downsizing that the company has had under way since...
...former Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell Jr. expressed concern about the effects of Lewis' gift...
...interview yesterday, Bell said the although he believes Lewis supports efforts to improve faculty diversity, he is afraid the gift will send the wrong message...
...fellows who cared about the environment -- could develop a process to burn coal cleaner and at a price that was competitive with Middle East oil, they could help fill a national need and win themselves a place alongside great American inventor-entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. And maybe strike it rich in the bargain. After all, that's the American Dream...
...American Dream is not so easy to achieve these days. In the century since Edison, Ford, Bell and Watson turned simple ideas into products and technologies that transformed society, entrepreneurship in America has become more complicated, less nimble. In capitalism's grand struggle between risk and reward, the forces of caution and liability have subtly, sadly, gained the upper hand. It is not enough just to have a good idea. These days one must know the intricacies of corporate finance, government regulation, patent protection, pricing strategy and sophisticated marketing. And even then, in the utility industry anyway, resistance to change...