Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the hidden victory of the WorldCom deal is that it gives AOL a technological leg up. WorldCom is building bigger pipes--broadband, in the parlance--over which AOL can push a richer service. Although some industry watchers see broadband as a weapon for rivals like cable companies to use against AOL, Case naturally holds the opposite view that his product will be more effective in a new era. If AOL can attract 12 million users just with snappy graphics and chat, imagine what it will be able to do with full-motion video and stereo sound...
...biggest winner in the AOL-Compuserve deal may be WorldCom, the $4.5 billion phone company you probably never heard of, run by a cigar-chomping ex-basketball coach who isn't burdened by too much knowledge about the industry and his hard-wired, guitar-playing sidekick, who is. The whole operation is run out of a town that is not exactly known as a global telecommunications center: Jackson, Miss...
...most notable has been Sidgmore, 46, a weekend rock guitarist who masterminded last week's AOL deal. Sidgmore worked out the three-way swap with AOL chairman Steve Case at a breakfast meeting in July. Voila! WorldCom now controls the networking divisions of CompuServe, AOL and the Microsoft Network, which was already in the fold. Yet neither Sidgmore nor Ebbers plans to stop adding to their empire anytime soon. Asked whether WorldCom will continue its voraciously acquisitive ways, Ebbers responds with typical bluntness, "Are we alive...
...expect that an operation with 11 million members (assuming the deal goes through) would have its Bronx cheering section. But the truth is that the usual AOLer's litany of service outages, tortoise-slow E-mail delivery and frequent busy signals is really of "the food stinks and the portions are too small" variety. Cassell tries to dig up meatier bones. He's written about the abuse of those ubiquitous "Five Hours Free!" diskettes that flood the mail. He's written about AOL hackers and AOHell, a program that helps delinquents steal members' passwords. And he's chronicled...
...four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told guests at his 30th birthday party that his father had always advised him to find a woman who would stick with him through thick and thin and that "those of you who know Victoria know that she's thick...