Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead all we've heard is howling. Last week MCI Communications was baying at Wall Street, explaining that it will lose $800 million this year trying to bust into local phone service with nothing to show for it. MCI blamed its loss on the intransigence of Baby Bell operating companies in complying with the law. Baby Bells such as BellSouth have been wailing that regulators won't let them into long-distance markets and that the long-distance companies don't want to compete anyway...
...outgoing president John Walters, TIME's Daniel Kadlec says the company's normally patient investors are growing restless. "CEO Bob Allen can't decide whether he's going to retire or stay. He can't decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will get back on track." Some of that wondering showed...
...Bell credits the problem to the inherent quality of capitalism-competition...
...Bell said that women faculty are paid eight to 10 percent less than male faculty on average. What troubles her is that this gap has remained constant over time...
...preponderance of women professors who have relatively less seniority and work in lower paid disciplines is often considered the cause of this inequality, Bell said. But with women now moving into all the disiplines and increasing in seniority, the discrepancy should narrow...