Word: expanders
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Walter's departure leaves AT&T in the hands of CEO Robert Allen, whose tortured leadership of Ma Bell ignited the search for a successor. His nine-year tenure has been marked by some seemingly desperate attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
Epps also said the College must approve PBHA's other hirings as well and would give "no guarantees" that all of PBHA's requests to expand staff would...
...many odd things about the plan to expand NATO has been the absence of debate, either in public or among the politicians who will have to judge the policy right or wrong for their countries. The discussion has only begun, and Administration officials say they are amazed at how the foreign policy elite in the U.S. has coalesced in opposition to expansion. Skepticism is showing up in Congress as well, where 20 Senators sent Clinton a letter asking a string of questions about the wisdom of letting the East Europeans into the NATO club. They were joined by a group...
...their letter the 20 Senators said they were not supporting or opposing the proposal to expand NATO, but they advised Clinton that a lot of "contentious" matters would have to be debated when they take up the issue. "I don't think there's organized opposition," says Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas who circulated the letter, "but I do think there's a growing group of questioners...
...Russia expert and now Deputy Secretary of State, feared that a rush to admit new members would anger Moscow. After months of wrangling, the advisers agreed to proceed cautiously, and Clinton announced in a Prague speech in January 1994 that the question was no longer if NATO would expand but when...