Word: bells
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...almost enough to make you nostalgic for Ma Bell. Twenty years ago, we had no choices at all. There was one electric company, one phone company, no Internet, no cell phones. Prices were high, but there were only a few bills to pay each month. Now there are 2,040 local phone companies in the U.S., 928 long-distance companies and 858 cell-phone service providers as well as 130 purveyors of broadband Internet access. We're besieged by telemarketers pitching incompatible technologies and offering us rate plans that read like the repair manual for the space shuttle. It sometimes...
...same time, hundreds of cash-strapped school districts around the country have turned to soft-drink bottlers, who offer as much as $100,000 a year for exclusive "pouring" contracts to place vending machines in school hallways. Principals have opened their cafeterias to such fast-food franchises as Taco Bell and Burger King. "If your task was to make the American child as unhealthy as possible, could you do much better than fast food and soft drinks in the cafeterias?" asks Kelly Brownell, a psychologist at Yale University...
...Francisco. He limited his outlook for the recovery to another acknowledgement that economic indicators have gone from "unremittingly bad" to "increasingly mixed," and that "significant risks remain." (That much we got from the Fed last dose of boilerplate in December, although ambivalence-ridden stocks still sold into Friday's bell on the restatement...
...other published texts.” True, the “as many as” line obliquely nods to the fact that West’s curriculum vitae often lists books that he only co-wrote or contributed to (1991’s Breaking Bread with bell hooks, 1995’s Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin with Michael Lerner, and several more), or books made up of previously published materials (Race Matters, the recent The Cornel West Reader), or compilations of interviews and conversations (1997’s Restoring Hope). And there may be a kernel...
...despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...