Word: englewood
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Competition is also beginning to pit Bell vs. Bell. U.S. West, based in Englewood, Colorado, last year acquired two cable-TV systems that serve 500,000 homes in Atlanta; in addition to cable programs, U.S. West will use the systems to offer local phone service and thereby steal customers away from BellSouth...
DIED. ULYSSES KAY, 78, prolific composer whose works, like the opera Frederick Douglass, often drew on African-American themes; in Englewood, New Jersey...
Downsizing can also anger customers who find workers too busy to pay attention to them. U S West, a Baby Bell telephone company with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, has announced a phasing out of 9,000 jobs, about one- seventh of its work force. Already, Lynn Schimmelfeder and Ben Rubin, two service representatives, have so few support staff members working under them that they are unable to chase down customer queries such as, "Why didn't the repair man get to my house today?" Phone operators like Carla West increasingly are having to listen to the gripes of irate callers...
Others dispute any shortage of willing recipients among African Americans. "I have more families coming to my agency than I can possibly handle," says Zena Oglesby, executive director of the Institute for Black Parenting in Englewood, California. "In my 17 years in adoption, I've never seen a shortage of black families that want children. Never." What Oglesby says he does see is a shortage of families willing to pay adoption fees -- which range from $3,500 to $50,000 for a private adoption. "You're talking about a race of people who were brought here in slavery," he says...
Vivan M. Lee of Fairbanks, Alaska said theHarvard dorms are "really incredible" compared toYale's. Layne S. Staley of Englewood, N.J. said"the women at Harvard look a lot better...