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...telephone users across the U.S. will be asked to pick one of several competing companies as their primary long-distance carrier. If they cannot make up their minds, people will automatically be assigned one of them, probably A T & T. These developments are an outgrowth of the Jan. 1 breakup of the Bell System, and of dozens of regulatory and technical changes in American telecommunications during the past 15 years. Says Edward Carter, marketing vice president of MCI: "For American consumers, it is the most significant change in a day-to-day necessity they've ever seen...
Although an experimental cellular system has operated in the Chicago area since 1978, it is chiefly the breakup of the Bell System that is making cellular technology take off. Under the terms of the Jan. 1 divestiture, the seven new regional companies responsible for local phone service won the right to enter the mobile-telephone business. Each is pumping as much as $20 million into its cellular efforts...
...first of the great Basie bands was formed in 1935 in Kansas City, a wide-open town where the beat went on 24 hours a day. Basie, who had been stranded there seven years earlier after the breakup of a vaudeville show he had been traveling with, put together a nine-piece combo. Discovered by Jazz Critic and Record Producer John Hammond shortly thereafter, the Basie band went to New York in 1936. The next year the release of the bouncy One O'clock Jump made the Count a celebrity...
...recommendations One follows, and frequently is asked advice from, students at major turning points all through their lives--in graduate school or law school, at the time of securing a first job of making a career change, at the time of marriage and always sadly, at the time of breakup of relationships I have similar relationships with two of my teachers, my college tutor, David Bevington, and Andrew Kautman, whom I had in a small seminar in constitutional law at the Law School I'am certain that I have gone into teaching and care about students glorious--example...
...report is printed on paper almost as flimsy as the kind used in phone books. The company did away with most of the slick finish for its 4 million reports because it needed to include eight more pages, largely about the firm's breakup...