Word: hausers
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...emerging new technologies blur the boundaries separating their markets, the telephone and cable-television industries are set on a collision course. The confrontation moved another step closer when Southwestern Bell, based in St. Louis, Missouri, agreed to acquire two cable-TV systems in the Washington, D.C., area from Hauser Communications for $650 million. If approved, the deal will mark the first time any of the seven so-called Baby Bells owns a cable-TV franchise. Until now, the former Bell System companies have only formed joint ventures with cable operators...
...Southwestern Bell-Hauser transaction left the cable-TV industry abuzz with apprehension about buyouts and drive-outs by bigger rivals. Many analysts think this deal could touch off a new round of investments in cable franchises by phone companies. Though nervous, cable firms face no immediate danger; federal law still prohibits phone companies from owning cable systems in their home market. The Southwestern deal, however, could set the stage for a Baby Bell in one region to raid a sibling's home market. If so, it would be an unprecedented family feud...
Edward is the innocent other, a literary type that stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even...
...Hauser outlined the options detailed in the advisory committee's current proposal. She said the options include participation in student volunteer groups, clinical courses, summer employment or a resource bank that will keep track of outside opportunities...
...James A. Hauser, the Miami-based attorneyrepresenting the prince's party, refused commentyesterday. Members of the Saudi entourage havetold Gerstein that they acted because the Crimsoneditors were bothering the prince's party