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...specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion...
When George Fisher took over Motorola nearly six years ago, the Schaumburg, Illinois-based electronics company had been chased out of the TV business, lost its lead in stereos and surrendered its No. 1 position in computer chips. It was even close to raising the white flag in cellular telephones. Fisher could have taken the well-worn corporate-turnaround path by slashing costs, closing divisions and laying off employees -- all to boost the bottom line, and ultimately Motorola's stock price. Instead he engineered one of the most remarkable transformations in U.S. corporate history, turning Motorola into a worldwide leader...
...unfortunately for Andrew P. McMahon and Elizabeth J. Robertson, two newly-tenured professors of cellular and developmental biology, the facility should have been completed earlier...
Steven A. Grand, having just finished a business deal over his cellular phone, said his career as a Swatch dealer based in New York depends more on volume sales than on collectibles...
...instead of debt and the partners exchange handshakes instead of lawsuits. Typical was last week's $4 billion agreement for financial conglomerate Primerica to acquire the 73% that it does not already own of Travelers, the insurance company. So too were AT&T's $12.6 billion deal for McCaw Cellular in August and the $6 billion merger agreement between drug firms Merck and Medco last July. "These deals are boring," says a disgruntled veteran of the '80s. "Today, you actually have to sell the stuff on the fundamentals" -- how well companies fit together...