Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lobbying for congressional support of the bill, Bell and its allies have argued that home-phone rates will go up dramatically-perhaps as much as 79% by 1985-unless competition is reduced...
Opponents of the bill question Bell statistics. One public study in Massachusetts showed that Bell's local phone service was returning 26% on investment...
Currently, the competition the bill seeks to eliminate is not big. Between them, the specialized communications carriers and the equipment makers had revenues last year of only $178 million, v. Bell's $28.9 billion. Clearly-although AT&T Chairman John D. deButts denies it-the bill is aimed at stifling newcomers to the lucrative communications markets of the future. Those potential billion-dollar markets are in such areas as facsimile communication, satellite transmission and computers that "talk" to each other over great distances. With its bill, the telephone establishment wants a guarantee that it will have the biggest slice...
Late one muggy afternoon last month, two men carrying bulging paper bags got out of a 1975 Mercury Marquis, walked up to a cigarette wholesaler's warehouse in Queens, pushed a bell above the steel door and were admitted. A few minutes later, another man rang the bell. "Whaddaya want?" he was asked over an intercom. "This is Jerry. I came to pick up the order," said the caller. "It's too late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street...
...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...