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Bewildered Americans have waited by their telephones for a year and a half to hear of some concrete benefit from the breakup of the Bell System in January 1984. Up to now, many people thought the only results were nearly indecipherable phone bills, baffling repair procedures and higher charges for local service and directory assistance. Last week came still more confusion...
...month that begins showing up in June on phone bills of millions of Americans. The fee will increase to $2 next year. The surcharge will be given to local phone companies to help make up for the loss of subsidies from long-distance service that the Bell System formerly funneled to them so that they could keep down local phone costs...
...Federal Communications Commission weighed in with still more complexities. It voted unanimously last week to approve a system of apportioning customers to various long-distance services. Following a plan already adopted by Northwestern Bell, local phone companies will be required to ask customers several times to choose a long-distance carrier. If they do not pick one, they will go into a pool that will be divided up among long- distance companies on the basis of the proportion of customers who have already decided...
...They overlap," he said, adding that he had yet to compose his remarks.Honorary Degree Recipients and dignitaries on the steps of Widener Library, Commencement Day, June 5, 1947. Front row, left to right: LAIRD BELL '94. Gov. ROBERT F. BRADFORD '23, R. KEITH KANE '22. Pres JAMES B. CONANT '14, honorary degree recipients GEORGE C. MARSHALL, OMAR N. BRADLEY, former Sen. JAMES W. WADSWORTH, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER '26, I.A. RICHARDS, and T.S. ELIOT...
Skocpol's husband William, who is a physicist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, is currently looking for job opportunities in the Cambridge and Berkeley areas, Skocpol said. There are no job possibilities for her husband in the Chicago area, she added...