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...respective offices last Tuesday, both watching the same show: a C-SPAN broadcast of the Federal Communications Commission hearing on cable-TV rates. Smith, the chairman of Bell Atlantic, was in his Arlington, Virginia, office; Malone, the boss of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was at TCI headquarters in Denver. Both executives were appalled as they watched the FCC announce a 7% reduction in cable rates, on top of a 10% rollback ordered last year. Malone immediately telephoned Smith. "Ray," Malone said in an emotionless voice, "this is a bigger hit than we thought." Responded Smith...
...Denver native, he entered engineering because of his interest in the workings of the paper mill where his father worked...
Abernathy says he chose engineering because, growing up in Denver, his father managed a paper mill. The future professor became fascinated with the workings of the mill's complicated machines, and he never looked back...
WERE THE EVENTUAL INVESTIGATIONS LESS VIGOROUS THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN? In 1992, when Whitewater's name was starting to crop up in stories about Bill Clinton's campaign, Denver lawyer James Lyons did an audit, at Clinton's request, that to critics seemed highly inadequate. The RTC's referral of the case to Justice landed in Washington in the fall of 1992 -- just as Clinton was forging decisively ahead of George Bush in the presidential race. Justice officials were afraid they would be accused of a partisan effort to smear Clinton if they had Washington take over the investigation...
...DENVER: Tickets to Broncos games...