Word: block
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Carey, 62, helped restore New York City and State to financial health. But his personal behavior was sometimes erratic. When a dentist started building a house that would block the view from Carey's summer home on Shelter Island, the Governor wanted the neighboring property seized under the right of eminent domain. Engie Gouletas had foibles too. She incorrectly said that her first ex-husband was dead and claimed that there were only two exes, not three. On top of all that, American Invsco, a large real estate company owned by Engie and her brothers, tumbled into financial disarray...
...field of telecommunications alone, AT&T already has under development such 21st century-sounding devices as phones that use miniature display screens to identify the source of a call before the receiver is answered; phones that can edit out and block pre-selected callers from reaching a person's number at all; phones that can even double as personal desktop computers. Also in the works is a broad range of video phones for offices and, most exotic of all, portable and cordless little devices that can provide instant direct-dial access to telephones around the world. Beyond telecommunications, divestiture...
...connected to Bell System lines, AT&T was stuffing its 1,500 retail PhoneCenter outlets with uninspired designer phones in the shapes of Mickey Mouse and Snoopy. Says Rosemarie Tevelow, who oversees Bankers Trust Co.'s investment portfolio of 5.2 million shares in AT&T, the second largest block held anywhere: "I am only modestly bullish on AT&T's future. It is hard for me to put a value on a stream of products as yet uninvented, a marketing operation as yet not in place, and a distribution system that is still largely nonexistent. Conceptually...
Through the gloom covering Poland today it is possible to catch an occasional glimpse of spirit that still glows. In one huge housing block in Warsaw, occupants who own dogs have agreed to walk their pets together-15 minutes after the 11 o'clock curfew. They stand in the courtyard chatting, some in bathrobes, defying the police to try to arrest all of them...
Later, a panoply of computer-age businesses in communications and data processing grew up that Bell could not enter. When upstart competitors like Washington, D.C.-based MCI began connecting their own equipment to AT&T transmission lines and going into business for themselves, Bell tried to block them. The Justice Department then charged that the company had conspired to monopolize telecommunications services in the U.S., a violation of the Sherman Antitrust...