Word: ince
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...compared with the 27 million Americans plodding along with home-PC modems running at 28,800 to 56,000 BPS. But cable companies are pouring billions into upgrading their networks to handle data traffic over the same wire that brings you ER and championship bass fishing. Tele-Communications Inc., Cox Communications, Comcast and more than a dozen other cable companies offer a high-speed online service called @Home that is available to about 10 million households. Time Warner Cable and MediaOne offer a similar service called Road Runner to 5 million more. Cost: about $40 a month...
...Federal Government's corporate-welfare programs started out as welfare. Some began as foreign aid and turned into long-term annuities for corporate beneficiaries. Typical is Bechtel Group Inc. (1997 revenues: $11.3 billion), the global construction and engineering giant owned by the Bechtel family. So far in the 1990s, Bechtel has received more than $2 billion in corporate welfare in the form of government insurance, loans and grants, in addition to foreign-aid contracts, one of which is now nearly 10 years...
...company Sittig oversees on St. Thomas, Export Assist Virgin Islands, is one of the islands' largest FSC managers. It employs seven people. Joseph G. Englert, president of its parent, Export Assist, Inc., San Francisco, disputes the notion that FSC management companies are just paper-shuffling operations. "We help [clients] with sales," he says. "We help them with transportation. We do what they call those economic processes, and we do a fair amount, [as] documented by real money being spent in our offices... So things really are going...
...factory fur farms and the myriad other ways the killing occurs before the "fashion" emerges. Seeing someone in fur, I used to think that person was either ignorant of the suffering involved or insensitive to it. But today neither excuse is in fashion. GRETCHEN WYLER, President Ark Trust Inc. Encino, Calif...
Florida Attorney General Robert A. Butterworth, below, expanded a lawsuit against American Family Publishers, the company that uses promises of huge sweepstakes winnings to round up new magazine subscribers. Alleging fraudulent business practices that target the elderly, the suit now names Time-Warner and Time Inc., part owners of AFP (and this magazine's parent companies) as co-defendants...