Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister Bells say the real problem is that AT&T and MCI do not want to get into the local market, because to do so would free the Bells to compete in the long-distance domain. Says Jim Ellis, SBC's general counsel: "We can bring them [the long-distance companies] to water, but we can't make them drink." Retorts Dan Schulman, AT&T's vice president for local marketing: "To say that we're not interested in moving into local residential service could not be farther from the truth...
...rich in iron and virtually identical to that examined at other sites 21 years earlier by the Viking landers. This suggested to scientists that Martian topsoil is widely distributed by the planet's frequent global dust storms. Why the reddish hue? "The surface of Mars is rusting," explains Jim Bell, a Cornell University scientist...
...disability is in part budget driven: the government estimates that the new eligibility rules could save $4.7 billion over six years. But the program's critics contend it has been abused by families whose children are not truly disabled. "The standards are vague and easily met," says Representative Jim McCrery, a Louisiana Republican and supporter of the new rules. "Some people regard it as just a super welfare program." The assault on children's SSI began three years ago, when a spate of news reports carried charges that parents were coaching children to act out mental disabilities. Among these...
...hero played by Stewart had been a figure of wild gestures; the Hitchcock hero was a man in moral traction, drawn to look at evil and wonder at its awful seductions. This was daring stuff. It took a bold man to twist and extend his star quality from sunny Jim into the darker shades of his mature roles. It took an extraordinary actor to achieve all this with such skill and courage, and not let the acting show...
...YORK: A 747 wired with a battery of sensors took off from New York's Kennedy airport this morning on an unusual mission, to try to simulate the conditions that caused TWA Flight 800 to explode last summer. According to National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall, a series of 10 such test flights will focus on a number of possibilities, ranging from mechanical failure to the remote possibility a meteor sparked the explosion. Hall told CNN Sunday: "A couple of those will try to replicate as closely as possible TWA 800. We'll be trying to look...