Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-shot candidate like Gary Bauer, former head of the Family Research Council, could keep the personal morality issue in play in the primaries. But Jeff Bell, an adviser to Bauer, says he would hesitate to see adultery become a litmus test for candidates. Among conservative Christians, a blemished past "is not a deal breaker," says Bell. What's important is how the candidate handles his own and others' transgressions. "One thing about Evangelicals," says a close adviser to George W. Bush, "they believe that without sin, redemption is not possible. And for them the issue is redemption...
...story," he says. "I don't feel it in my heart to deny either side political cover." For censure to pass, Senators from both sides will have to decide that a bipartisan conclusion serves everyone's interests. And they don't have much time to get there before the bell rings and everyone rushes for the exit...
Talk about back to the future. Ma Bell wants to be your sole communications provider again, just 15 years after regulators broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly. A major difference this go-round is that there's no monopoly. Another difference is that we're talking about much more than your phone. The vision described above, of lower cost and simpler billing for a whole complex of telecommunication services, could become reality in only a year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November...
Just last week long-distance company MCI rolled out local-phone service to compete with Bell Atlantic in New York State, and launched a service, with America Online's CompuServe unit, to offer Internet access to households. "The barriers for who provides what are blurring," says Daniel Reingold, telecom analyst at Merrill Lynch. "Every player needs a full shelf of products...
...possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone monopolies...