Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years before the court-ordered breakup of American Telephone | and Telegraph, the Federal Government required the company to separate its telephone-service division from the unit that made and sold equipment. That step was taken to prevent Ma Bell from charging telephone customers for the cost of developing new communications systems...
...will take weeks, perhaps months, to assess the financial toll of last week's earthquakes. But most analysts of Mexican affairs would agree that the disaster could not have come at a worse time for the country's troubled economy. As Peter Bell, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, puts it, "Mexico has been going through something like the trials...
Both cross-country squads nabbed several fine runners--Katie Toner, Jodie Dushay, and Jill Kelly will join the women, while Mark Foley, Brian Cann, Eric Davis, Tim Bell and John Oja will take to the track...
...some aspects, Bell's report contained heartening news for Hutton. He disagreed with earlier estimates that Hutton's scheme had cost banks as much as $30 million. Instead, the investigator contends that the $8 million that Hutton has set aside to compensate the banks will be more than enough. Hutton's culpability, though, will be further scrutinized in probes by a House subcommittee and the Securities and Exchange Commission, among others...
...shake-up could prompt some senior executives and other large stockholders to welcome a takeover offer. That could make Hutton an easier acquisition target for such firms as Phibro-Salomon, the investment company, or Chrysler, which has been seeking to buy a financial subsidiary. While Hutton executives hope that Bell's report will be the end of the overdraft episode, the story may not be over...