Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April of aircraft maker Grumman, which had also been sought by Martin Marietta. Retailing? Federated paid $4.1 billion for R.H. Macy last month in a merger that created America's largest department-store company. Wireless phones? U.S. West and AirTouch Communications agreed two weeks ago to pool their cellular operations into a business with total sales of $13.5 billion and nearly 2 million subscribers...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Even as telephone and cable-TV companies join forces to wire up America, cellular firms are racing to create networks in the air. Last week Nextel Communications, a New Jersey wireless company, gained just such a coast-to-coast system when it acquired the cellular operations of Dial Page of South Carolina plus the mobile-radio business of Motorola in deals valued at $2.7 billion. The combinations will pit Nextel, a firm with 200,000 customers, against AT&T, which agreed to pay $12.6 billion for McCaw Cellular last year. Also in the fray are Nynex and Bell Atlantic...
Word of the flight soon went out, and the crowds were on their feet, cheering. Police picked up O.J.'s cellular-phone calls and began tracking the Ford Bronco along the San Diego Freeway. Reporters pursuing in helicopters overhead said that he had a gun to his head. People pulled up their lawn chairs to the side of the road to wait for the cortege to pass. They lined the overpasses, waving, shouting, holding up signs -- Go O.J. Go -- as if he were trying to elude a pack of motorized tacklers...
...police by now were receiving anonymous tips on where O.J. had been spotted. At 7:15 p.m., L.A.P.D. Detective Tom Lange, who had been one of the lead investigators, reached Simpson on a cellular phone in Cowlings' car. Lange functioned as a crisis negotiator through the wild ride down the freeways. Simpson's friends went on the radio to plead with him to give himself up. "O.J., Al, if you're listening to me, if you can hear me, guys, please, please stop," said ex-N.F.L. player and sportscaster Jim Hill. "Just turn on your emergency blinkers and just...
...person, Bolton is cheerful and full of surprises. One minute she may be talking about the barbecued pigs' feet and rabbit cake she cooked for Humphreys ("She wouldn't take a dime for her work"); the next, she is pulling a ringing cellular phone from her handbag and telling the caller she is in a meeting. Recently she told her current employer that she needed a few weeks off for personal business. The boss doesn't know that she is a published writer and has to go off on a pseudonymous national publicity tour. "Can you believe it?" asks...