Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales of $53 billion), its core long-distance business suffered a 3.4% decline in the face of stiff competition from MCI WorldCom and Sprint. Also worrisome: AT&T's wireless-telephone business is in danger of being lapped by Sprint PCS. MediaOne provides AT&T with sorely needed growth opportunities in previously closed markets, particularly local telephone. "That's what AT&T really knows how to do," says Armstrong. "We're going to be the lowest-cost product out there...
Where there is no consolation, there is now counseling. But is it necessarily helpful? The huge growth in such on-the-scene therapy has raised questions about the value of pouring out one's grief to the social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and clergy who are invariably on hand at disasters to lend empathic support. If local resources feel the strain, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, National Organization for Victim Assistance and a host of other nonprofit organizations send in volunteers. During presidentially declared disasters, the Center for Mental Health Services contributes federal funds for counseling. It spent $10 million last...
...sign of change is the growth of "women's funds," in which money is raised and given out by women, often to causes that benefit women. In 1979 there were only five women's funds; today there are 95. Last year the 250 members of the Washington Women's Foundation each gave $2,000 to fund grants of $50,000 and $100,000 to causes like nature conservation and children's medical research...
...Secretary Bentsen set the Treasury on the right course, emphasizing deficit reduction, cooperation, for growth around the world," he said. He continued, "Secretary Rubin has seen the Treasury and the global economy as a whole through enormously challenging times with a steady hand...
...threatened by AT&T's growing cable empire and deals with At Home and Microsoft. The set-top box is supposed to hold special appeal for the half of U.S. households that don't have a computer, a market that AOL must tap in order to maintain its torrid growth (now past 17 million subscribers...