Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with lines forming at brokers' offices and the blistering pace of buying still accelerating at the closing bell, every buy order was a vote to the contrary...
...telco legal teams have tied the FCC in many, many knots. Last week a federal court in St. Louis, Mo., once again blocked the FCC's efforts to force former Bell companies to open up their markets. "It's a torpedo under the waterline of efforts toward real competition," Hundt says. "Congress's intent to introduce competition was twisted by the judicial machinations of incumbent monopolists--both local and long-distance telephone companies." Hundt doesn't see the potential GTE-MCI merger as being particularly friendly to consumers. "By our count, GTE has filed 23 federal court actions challenging...
...sees some hope in the entrepreneurial, and unregulated, wireless-phone industry, in which falling prices threaten to undermine conventional service. "The young crowd comes in sneakers, and doesn't have a lot of paper; all they really have is a good idea," he says. "When a Bell company shows up, they bring 20 pages of documents, 15 lawyers, hold a press conference and complain about the FCC before the TV cameras...
...choose Taco Bell," Adam counters. "You hardly have to have an education, and you'd get free tacos." Across the classroom, Melissa tells Rory that a lawyer has more job security than a farmer; Rory, a farmer's son, points out that as a lawyer, "you'd be away from your kids a lot." Natalie speaks up for auto mechanics, because "you get to build your own car." Angela wonders, "Do you need to learn another language to be an architect...
...hard to think of a better use of celebrity than saving teenagers from ruining their lives, even if the celebrity comes with more baggage than could ever fit in an overhead bin. While the rest of us have shed our antiwar activism along with our bell bottoms, images of Fonda in her shag cut in Hanoi, along with stills of her as the sex kitten Barbarella, are the staples of every profile. But because we didn't let her grow up, she may have greater appeal to vulnerable teenagers than the icy perfection of a Nancy Reagan urging, "Just...