Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have needed this deal more than anyone else did. While the company posted a healthy $1.78 billion profit last quarter (in 1998 it earned $5.4 billion on sales of $53 billion), its core long-distance business suffered a 3.4% decline in the face of stiff competition from MCI WorldCom and Sprint. Also worrisome: AT&T's wireless-telephone business is in danger of being lapped by Sprint PCS. MediaOne provides AT&T with sorely needed growth opportunities in previously closed markets, particularly local telephone. "That's what AT&T really knows how to do," says Armstrong. "We're going...
...some sense, last week's agreement with Microsoft, a deal in which Bill Gates has taken on a junior-partner role to AT&T, is symbolic of what has occurred. For if Gates has defined visionary business leadership throughout the '90s, then Armstrong may now be emerging as a revisionary visionary in his own right. AT&T, like Microsoft, struggled to form a coherent strategy to embrace the technologies and consumer services emerging in the "post-PC" era. Unlike Microsoft, AT&T has certainly made up for lost time...
...caused several teammates to refer to him as Kramer, but he can also be eerily emotionless. Fellow Czech and NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr wears sweater No. 68 in memory of the year the Russians occupied his country. Hasek says beating the Russians in the Olympic finals was no big deal. "The older people in Czech could feel this way, but I did not feel like I was playing against a country that occupied us for many, many years. These last eight years I spent here in U.S., I played with many Russians; Alexei Zhitnik, he's my teammate...
...quiz for all you armchair oncologists. A 50-year-old man gets a blood test that measures his PSA (prostate-specific antigen)--a substance that is produced only by the prostate. His results edge just past normal, which probably means he has an enlarged prostate. No big deal. Or he could have prostate cancer. "This must be our unlucky day," says his wife, also 50, when he tells her. "I just found out that my mammogram is positive." Which spouse is more likely to have cancer...
This home truth explains a great deal that seems merely shabby, not monstrous, and not puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...