Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to be losing market share and is in a costly battle to get it back. Last week it descended into a pure price war, announcing a new flat-rate plan: 15' a minute for any call, anytime, anywhere in the country. Competitors already offer such plans. MCI Telecommunications president Timothy Price jeers, "The routine is that MCI introduces a service and AT&T says it isn't necessary. Then a year later they come out with something similar." AT&T isn't the only phone company whose stock is under pressure (see chart). Share prices of the Baby Bells...
Better not be flat...
After the emotion-packed UMass loss, Harvard came out a little flat in the second game...
Unlike the man he would replace, no one would ever mistake Gephardt for a revolutionary. With his flat Midwestern accent, his crisp, cuffless blue suits and his wispy, ginger-colored hair, he comes across as exactly what he is: careful and deliberate, encouraging but rarely inspiring. Where Gingrich prefers to back his opponents up against a wall, Gephardt would rather subdue them at the negotiating table. His willingness to sit and listen for hours while others gripe and posture has earned him the nickname "Ironbutt," courtesy of his colleagues...
Nonetheless, Dole plans more drug ads and, starting this week, new spots touting his tax cuts. Earlier ones fell flat, but these will feature not the figure 15% but instead $1,600--supposedly the amount a middle-class family would save each year. There will also be a relentless attempt to pin on Clinton that awful tag "liberal." Will it work? The question is almost irrelevant: this approach is just about all Dole has left...