Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malkin also said that the Bell letter, mailedby HRAAA to former members of the Law School'sLegal Aid Bureau, was written on official LawSchool stationery. Malkin said it was against LawSchool policy to send letters on Law Schoolstationery unless they were for official business...
...first alarm bell rang in February, when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began...
Another heavy blow in the '80s was deregulation of rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...
...community in the coming century as the railroads were in the last. Clay Center, because of its inexpensive real estate and literate work force, might be an ideal spot for a credit-card processing center or other "electronic cottage." Unfortunately, Clay Center's phone service, provided by Southwestern Bell, is so antiquated that hookups with international computer networks are impossible...
...Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell said, "The turning down of two or three people was a very traumatic and divisive happening. It's not the natural order of things here. So an occasion when two people gain unanimous support across ideological lines is a particularly welcome event after trauma...