Word: developers
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Araskog has good reason to want to shed much of the ITT communications network, particularly System 12, a computerized switching board that telephone companies use to route calls. The unit, which cost $1 billion to develop, sold well after it was unveiled in Europe in 1979, but it has turned a profit only in West Germany and Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System...
...circulated that Tribble was seen with Bias in various places around Washington in the early morning before the athlete's death and accompanied him back to his dormitory at 5 a.m., about an hour before he was stricken. Arthur Marshall, state's attorney for Prince Georges County, vowed to develop a manslaughter case if the dealer who sold the fatal cocaine can be identified. Said he: "Just remember the Belushi case...
...leading lights of this new movement, told the Democrats that welfare "makes it possible" for a recipient to remain locked in poverty. Calling for a "frank acknowledgment" of the pathological behavior of some segments of the underclass, he stressed that welfare recipients should be encouraged to develop an "obligation" to improve their situation by taking on the responsibilities of work and family...
Convoluting the plot further, Stone's middle-aged mistress and her dumb-stud pal decide to blackmail the fashion mogul. While trying to videotape Stone murdering his wife, they succeed only in filming the local police chief with a prostitute in his car. Here, the movie attempts to develop the characters, depicting the plotting woman and her friend as too sensitive to watch the alleged murder on the videotape...
...wide variety of cases. He left to take a job teaching at the University of Virginia Law School. In 1971 he became general counsel of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, where he resisted the attempts of Nixon aides to tamper politically with public television and began to develop his academic specialty, the rather arcane field of administrative law. After several years in the Justice Department, Scalia went back to teaching in 1977, at the University of Chicago Law School. Scalia's high-profile, high-octane conservatism made him a favorite of the Reagan Justice Department...