Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-distance competitors are going to lose some of those advantages. To gain access to customers' telephones, the new carriers until last month were paying a fee to local telephone companies equal to only 30% of what A T & T paid...
They now pay 45%, and when the equal-access switch is complete, all long-distance companies will pay the same rate...
...profit margin by getting more customers and hanging on to them longer. Currently the company loses about 40% of its customers annually because of MCI's long and cumbersome access codes or occasionally poor connection quality that is due to inadequate switching systems. Those difficulties should ease with equal access to local tele phone systems...
CLOSE TO 10 years after women first moved into Harvard dorms and began receiving Harvard diplomas, a series of events this year gave a harsh reminder that equal acceptance for women has not proceeded as completely as some had thought. Perhaps more than any other recent year, the 1983-84 academic term has witnessed several jarring manifestations of discriminatory treatment of or attitudes toward women on campus...
President Bok is head of the board, but he tends to work with the other members very much as an equal. He consults with them, and the group decides major issues by consensus. While earlier boards up until President Eliot's time often were sharply divided, no one can remember the Corporation having a single vote in at least 30 years. However, although it hasn't happened in recent memory, all seven Corporation members agree that if there were a major division on the board the President's side would win, even if he stood alone. But the reason they...