Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspects that Bell may be charging too much for some services, too little for others. With its usual sympathy for Bell's smaller competitors, the Commission has been aroused by a complaint from Western Union that Bell is undercharging for services in which the two companies clash headon. A.T. &T. earns only 1.4% on the private-line telegraph service and 4.7% on the private-line telephone service that it sells to business in competition with Western Union, but gets a return of 10% on interstate telephone services which it monopolizes. The FCC will also investigate whether A.T.&T. pays...
...sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room russet. Curling wall panels clash with hexagonal clouds. New seats resemble those in cheap movie houses. But Philharmonic Hall at last has sound it can live with...
...Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets off the floor. Heston sweats, struggles up the scaffolding, and smears himself with color in a performance that merely adds another great stone profile to his gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue...
...Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash...
...with Nigerian business. The Nigerians feel that they and their onetime white masters need never clash. "The time is coming," says Timothy Udutola, "when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets" Against that time, Nigeria is seeking joint ventures in Europe and the U.S., has also concluded negotiations for eventual associate membership in the European Common Market. Already it exports more to the Market than to its old master, Britain...