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...breakup of the phone system has so far produced mainly problems...
...company hopes that its move into computers will help smooth what has been a shaky start after its breakup. Faced with rising costs resulting from regulatory decisions, Chairman Charles Brown said two weeks ago that AT&T profits in the first quarter would be lower than expected. He indicated that the firm might have to slash its dividends after the first quarter unless the Federal Communications Commission reverses rulings that require A T & T to pay substantially more than rival long-distance firms for access to local telephone networks. The agency agreed last week to re-examine the matter...
Although barred from selling computers before the breakup, the company for more than 30 years has been developing and building them for telephone-call switching, billing and other internal needs. In 1947 scientists at A T& T's Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, which laid the foundation for microchips. The company also created the UNIX computer operating system, which has been licensed to more than 2,200 businesses, universities and government agencies in the U.S. and ten other countries since the early...
...East. Having forced Lebanon to renounce its U.S.-sponsored agreement with Israel, Assad not only scored a major diplomatic triumph but established himself as the man to see for a Middle East settlement. This is even if, in trying to stabilize Lebanon, he may have overreached himself, as the breakup in the reconciliation talks last week suggests...
...FILM Entre Nous concludes with the French seashore at dusk, we observe the scene from the perspective of a small girl who is standing on the porch of a beachhouse watching her parents complete the breakup of their ailing marriage. She is the unnoticed observer; slightly confused at the complex adult world, but completely engrossed. The viewer experiences a similar response to Diane Kury's new film--a film that thrusts the viewer into the intricate emotional life of its character's lives, but occasionally leaves them standing alone...