Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What really exasperates Bell executives is that MCI plans to plug its long-distance customers into Bell's local systems. An MCI client in New York will be able to list and use a Chicago telephone number without having an office there. He could call any number in Chicago, and Chicagoans could call him in New York with Bell collecting only for the local service. AT&T refused to provide that service, so MCI petitioned the federal district court in Philadelphia, and won. Had MCI lost, AT&T could have nipped the growing competition in the bud: fewer clients...
...civic leaders were especially concerned about a report which alleged that under pressure from its client, the Massachusetts Port Authority, Maguire had reversed its conclusions on the suitability of an East Boston site for a new shipping facility...
...tolerated from others in the profession is that his boat rocking is done from a well-established position in the first-class section. Back in Lakeland, Fla., his practice earned him $100,000 a year and will probably be worth more when his presidency ends. One big client was the phosphate industry, which only recently lost its battle to avoid a special tax. But during the years Smith was lobbying for the industry, he was always able to make good on his boast: "There ain't going to be no phosphate tax this year...
...entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Whistler was one of the most vengeful litigants since Shylock. "When I pay you six-and-eightpence, I pay you six-and-eightpence for law, not justice," he once told his solicitor, who had dared suggest that his client be fair...
...Lambres of Cleveland said James Pierce, his client, pleaded the Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination when he was called to testify...