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...months, AT&T has bombarded consumers with an advertising campaign designed to convince them to pick AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T operators encourage callers to choose their company with each collect call they assist, while actor Cliff Robertson (who one AT&T executive described as "literally dripping with integrity") declares to TV viewers that "the more you hear, the better we sound...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Thoughtless Choice | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...THINK ABOUT AT&T SERVICE." AT&T does have more operators than the other firms, which generally do not provide the operator service necessary for collect and person-to-person calls. Under the Equal Access regulations, however, it will be possible to reach AT&T (and all other carriers) by dialing a five-digit number even if you choose a rival firm as your primary (dial 1) carrier. Romano confirmed that which ever long distance company you choose, "there will always be an AT&T operator available" if you need...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Thoughtless Choice | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...prosecution successfully that in 1979 and 1980 von Bulow tried to made, his wife in the New port mansion because he wanted to collect her 14 million inheritance-and because he had fallen in love with a soap opera star who reportedly told von Bulov that he would have to choose "either...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: Von Bulow Trial Begins Without Dershowitz | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

Normally, sympathy-evoking cases like these are prized by personal-injury lawyers, who usually win a healthy majority of their suits--and collect a third of any winnings. But even the most combative attorneys are inclined to shake their heads when the defendant is Walt Disney Productions. Against the huge entertainment complex, personal-injury specialists are hardly ever victorious. The company's astonishing success is the result of a combination of safety-minded care and case-hardened lawyering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Mickey Mousing Around | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Life is growing ever more litigious for the bodacious Hunts. The Internal Revenue Service is attempting to collect from them more than $230 million in back taxes arising from the silver speculation. The Texas-size case--one of the largest IRS claims ever against a family for a single tax year--grows out of $163.1 million that was transferred in 1980 by Bunker Hunt and his wife Caroline to their three children and two sons-in-law. The Government contends that the transfers were gifts and that the elder Hunts owe some $112 million in gift taxes. Family lawyers deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubled Hunts: Is there a silver lining? | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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