Word: calling
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...debate is likely to get lost on the consumer. "You can call it what you want," says Paul Harman, a Georgia accountant who complained to the FCC after his company noticed the charge. "It's just another form of taxation. The consumer pays in the end." Lawmakers have begun to hear similar complaints. At a hearing in February, Congressman Ed Bryant, a Tennessee Republican, waved a copy of a telephone bill sent him by a constituent who was confused and angry over the $4 surcharge his company was having to pay. "How shall I explain this tax to my constituent...
...give him more swat in Congress than either of his opponents. But that distinction could cost him in a district that is 39% black and deeply suspicious of the G.O.P. Says civil rights hero and Georgia Congressman John Lewis: "The question will be, Are you what we used to call a 'race man'?" Still, Lewis sees something else in the Glenn race: an emerging conservatism among young blacks--or at least a reluctance to sign up blindly with the Democratic Party. "As younger black professionals move up, they tend to move away from party affiliation. They could...
...grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...
...could say he was the greatest, and that's right. But that doesn't say enough. There's nothing you can call him that doesn't in some way sell him short. Except Sinatra...
LARRY BIRD Coaching honors, play-off wins--does the dream season go on or end with Jordan's wake-up call...