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When local telephone companies ask their customers to choose a long-distance service, many budget-conscious consumers quickly ask for such cut-rate services as MCI and GTE Sprint. But as many as 70% of them never bother to respond. Under current federal communications rules, those customers who do not speak up are automatically assigned to American Telephone and Telegraph, even if they are already using a competing service. MCI Chairman William McGowan, GTE's Theodore Brophy and other AT&T rivals claim that this gives the already dominant company a highly unfair advantage. Last week the Justice Department recommended...
...last week Crowell confessed that she had made up the story. Awaiting a hearing that could result in his release this week, Dotson, now 28, found reason to praise his false accuser. Said he: "I just want to thank her for showing that some people's consciences do bother them about things they've done in the past...
...field. To be effective as missile or warhead zappers, the beams would have to be made neutral, which involves a process of accelerating, aiming and focusing charged particles by electromagnets, then stripping off the charge just before the beams are shot out the end of an orbiting device. Why bother with them then? Primarily because the beams, which work by frying the innards of a missile or warhead with radiation, in principle are more lethal and yield a surer kill than lasers...
...enter the atmosphere. The beams, however, are hard to aim and control. Not to mention the price tag: Researcher Bill Barletta figures this one small part of a defensive system might cost $20 billion. Says he: "If we can't do it for that price, we shouldn't bother proposing...
WHEN APPLYING to Harvard, it is not unusual to face comments such as: "You'll probably never see any or the professors. They're a'l too interested in research to bother with the students...