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...Dony Gideon Larkspur, Colo...
...major corporations and state agencies are literally setting up their own phone companies. By building microwave dish antennas and aiming them at communications satellites, they can legally bypass public phone systems. That significantly cuts into the revenue of AT&T and all other phone companies. Says Gideon Gartner, a telecommunications researcher: "The danger to AT&T of bypass cannot be overestimated...
...what to drink (no alcohol, even when off the job), and were urged in signs posted everywhere to THINK. Aspiring executives usually started out in sales and marketing and were transferred so frequently that they took to joking that IBM stood for "I've Been Moved." Observes Gideon Gartner, chairman of the Gartner Group, a computer-research firm: "If you understand the Marines, you can understand...
...series of landmark cases that began with Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court ruled that any criminal facing a possible jail sentence was entitled to have an attorney. At the same time, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Administration began to provide millions of dollars to set up local legal services programs to handle such civil court problems of the poor as evictions, consumer complaints and fights with bureaucracies. Over the next decade and a half, the increasing commitment of Government to provide lawyers for the poor led some to note with acerbic exaggeration that only the very rich...
...course, that is precisely what Begin did. Yet the process that had forced his hand also gave proof that the principles of democracy and justice on which Israel was founded had not been buried in the rubble of Sabra and Shatila. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gideon Rafael put it: "The people of Israel are not only a stiff-necked but a fundamentally decent people. They will not tolerate a government that has morally, politically and economically bankrupted the country...