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...latest immigrants are following an arduous and traditional path into American society. Throughout the country's history, groups of newcomers have tended to cluster in certain jobs and then dominate their chosen fields by long and hard work. "This is a very common, recurrent phenomenon," says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. German arrivals with names like Schlitz, Busch and Miller became beermakers in the mid-19th century, for example, while Italians grew fruits and vegetables and produced wine...
While the Saturn project was being planned, Smith's high-tech talent scouts were continuing their hunt for acquisitions. Hughes Aircraft was an early favorite. Considered a rival to Bell Laboratories as an electronics developer, Hughes was precisely the type of company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field...
University of Utah Professor and former Secretary of Education TERREL BELL at Longwood College in Farmville, Va.: "I can't emphasize too much the critical importance of the reform movement now under way all across America. We have a / will and a determination to strengthen our schools and our colleges and to make them even better than they are, and I urge you graduates to do your utmost after you leave here to be strong advocates of American education. Run for the school board. Get involved. Help those who come after you to have the opportunity that...
...ruling was one of the most important since the Bell System was broken into eight giant pieces, leaving AT&T responsible for long distance and seven regional companies handling local phone traffic. GTE Chairman Theodore Brophy reacted enthusiastically. Said he: "This is the first step toward establishing fairness in the long-distance telecommunications market." AT&T, though, was less than enthusiastic, warning that the new process would leave customers the victims of "long-distance roulette...
With the decision, the FCC moved the U.S. phone system a step closer to one of the goals of the Bell breakup. That was to promote competition in the long- distance field by making it as easy to use new long-distance companies as it is to use AT&T. At present, an AT&T long-distance customer need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice...