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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialized communications carriers and the equipment makers had revenues last year of only $178 million, v. Bell's $28.9 billion. Clearly-although AT&T Chairman John D. deButts denies it-the bill is aimed at stifling newcomers to the lucrative communications markets of the future. Those potential billion-dollar markets are in such areas as facsimile communication, satellite transmission and computers that "talk" to each other over great distances. With its bill, the telephone establishment wants a guarantee that it will have the biggest slice of the action...
That is right. Cigarette bootlegging -"buttlegging" to police-is a multimillion-dollar business. It is a phenomenon of the past decade, when hard-pressed state governments discovered that levying stiff cigarette taxes was a politically painless way of raising money. The taxes, however, are easy to evade. Buttleggers, according to one police source, now smuggle nearly half a billion cartons a year-or one-sixth of all cigarettes smoked-into 42 high-tax states. The Council Against Cigarette Bootlegging, an organization financed by the tobacco industry, estimates that 44 million cartons will be smuggled into New York State alone this...
Undergraduates can obtain tickets for the Dartmouth game in Hanover, to be played in two weekends, at the ticket office next Monday and Tuesday in exchange for--and this is a real buy--one coupon and four single dollar bills...
...public schools. Overall, there are now 3,500 private academies in the South. About 750,000 mostly middle-class students-one out of ten white students in the South-attend these schools, which vary widely in quality and tuition. Some are makeshift affairs in church basements; others have multimillion-dollar facilities and are as good as or better than the region's public schools. Although they were founded in response to desegregation, the academies are preferred by some parents partly because they tend to be less permissive (paddling for discipline is a common practice) and because many of them...
...Carolinas, which have long been major textile centers, are also attracting diverse foreign firms. West German companies, led by Hoechst, the chemical giant, have more invested in South Carolina than anywhere else outside of Germany itself. Tennessee's Nashville, along with its multimillion-dollar country-music industry, is fast becoming a mecca for financial services...