Word: itt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much does it cost to make a 10-minute phone call from Cambridge to New York City at 6 p.m., a weeknight? Allnet: 42.30 MCI: $2.21 AT&T: $2.62 SBS skyline: $ 2.70 First Phone Link Service: $1.64 GIE Sprint: $2.08 ITT: $1.96 US Telecommunications...
...much does it cost to make a 10-minute call from Cambridge to Los Angeles at 5 p.m. Saturday? Allnet: $1.86 MCI: $1.76 AT&T: $1.96 SBS Skyline: $1.70 First Phone Link Service: $1.64 GTE Sprint: $1.67 ITT: $1.67 US Telecommunications...
...competitors a 55 percent discount in local access fees to help compensate for AT&T's advantages as the former telephone monopoly. According to the March issue of Consumer Reports, the least expensive service was SBS Skyline, followed, in order of increasing rates, by Western Union, Allnet, ITT, MCI, GTE, Sprint, and AT&T, SBS Skyline, according to Sesser, was "the over-whelming choice. Not only was it the cheapest service, but it had better voice quality than...
Still, ABC's financial situation was unstable (it was the target in the 1960s of attempted hostile takeovers by Norton Simon and Howard Hughes and an aborted merger with ITT), and its hold on last place in the ratings seemed depressingly unshakable. Some of the network's hit shows of the late 1960s and early '70s were often faddish entries, quick to catch on and quick to fade away: Batman, The Mod Squad, Kung Fu. ABC's ratings woes became the subject of mordant jokes. Asked how to end the Viet Nam War, industry wags would reply, "Turn it into...
...compared South Africa, with its system of apartheid, to apattheid Germany, which was responsible for one of the most devasting in the history of mankind and for the extermination of millions of innocent people. We have no way of knowing how many lives could have been spared had not ITT produced and perfected the communications systems used in Germany bombers and submarines, or bad not RCA, General Motors, DuPont, Chemical or Chuse Manhattan been similarly tied to the Third Reich. We must learn lessons from history...