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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger III helicopter. He uses the helicopter to make short hops for business trips and to visit his Hilton Head, S.C., retreat. Paulson also has four other
...keep students in school. Although expulsion is sometimes necessary, educators believe that most students can be reached. In 1979 at Samuel Gompers Vocational-Technical High School in the South Bronx, only 60% of the students regularly showed up for school, and teachers were afraid to stay after the last bell. A new principal, Victor Herbert, began fighting back with graffiti-free hallways, a more stimulating curriculum and special events. Last year at Gompers (enrollment: 1,500), attendance was up to 80%. Says Herbert...
Seldom has anything so big ended so unceremoniously or uneventfully. Ma Bell simply walked offstage after 107 years, to no applause and no disruption in service. Millions of Americans picked up their telephones on New Year's Day and still got dial tones, as if nothing had happened...
Although more than 10,000 telephone people spent the past two years working out details of the divestiture, Americans last week still had millions of questions about their new phone company-or companies. Unfortunately, at every level of what used to be the Bell System and in the regulatory commissions of all 50 states, there were many more questions than answers. Confesses William McKeever, telecommunications analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds: "Everybody is confused. The customers are thoroughly confused. The employees are confused. The companies are confused. So are the regulatory commissions, the unions and the stockholders...
...They are also quietly pressuring some executives into early retirement. But only a small number of managers have so far opted for it. Of the 110,000 people who would become part of AT&T Information Systems alone because of divestiture, only 4% have accepted retirement deals. Tradition-bound Bell will have to move fast to keep up with the increasingly competitive telecommunications industry. Says Analyst McKeever: "AT&T has to realize that they are in the real world...