Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice reportedly came down to Armstrong and vice chairman John Zeglis, 50, a veteran AT&T attorney who helped devise the breakup of the old Ma Bell. In a Solomonic decision, the directors named Zeglis president and chief operating officer, with a clear shot at running the company when Armstrong steps down. By then this American institution will be either ringing up better numbers or calling for an undertaker...
...YORK: So what was it? Not a crash. Not even a panic, really. But when a scare in Hong Kong wafts west and sends the usually buoyant Dow plummeting as much as 230 points from the opening bell, something significant may be afoot ? even if things did settle in at down 186.88 by closing time...
Until the last few years, advances in computers were met with advances in prices--no matter what the year, a new computer would set you back $2,500, no questions asked. You could buy a Packard Bell or Leading Edge system for half that amount, but they were stripped down machines that couldn't pull their weight...
...high-speed Internet-access networks--than even mighty AT&T. Adding MCI would balloon WorldCom's revenues from $4.5 billion in 1996 to nearly $28 billion and make the company, based in Jackson, Miss., by far the leading challenger to the $52.7 billion colossus once known as Ma Bell. "With all of his transactions," says Berge Ayvazian, executive vice president of the Yankee Group consulting firm, "Ebbers has basically pushed WorldCom...
...environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes for a random draw from the gene pool, whatever their fear of colon cancer and whatever they may have felt (and said) about Charles Murray, notorious co-author of The Bell Curve...