Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make it tough," says the official. But such a fight is likely only if Microsoft invests wisely in Washington...
...present, Captain Dan Fischer. "It's an FAA regulation if you do acrobatics." Air Force superiors said the service didn't have to obey Federal Aviation Administration rules even though the T-3, unlike most Air Force planes, is registered with the FAA. Back at his apartment, Fischer was blunter. "Someone's going to die before they get rid of these spins," he told his roommate, also a T-3 pilot. "And it's not going...
...private, the architects admitted as much. On the telephone Wednesday afternoon Lott put it this way: "We didn't do nearly enough in spending restraint in my opinion. But to get what we wanted on the tax-relief side, we made some concessions." A White House official was even blunter: "They took care of their contributors. We took care of our voters...
...hold while she considered the request. An honorable discharge was out of the question; there would be practically a mutiny in the senior officer corps if she allowed such blatant favoritism for an officer charged with these offenses. In private with Widnall, Air Force General Fogleman was even blunter than he had been before the Senate. This was an issue of integrity, he told the Secretary. Forget adultery. The Air Force's core values were at stake. Officers...
DIED. ROXIE ROKER, 66, actress; in Los Angeles. For over a decade, Roker played the blunter half of an interracial couple--one of TV's first--on the sitcom The Jeffersons...