Word: joe
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What is going on here? In a word: deregulation. The seminal event in the deterioration of long-distance information occurred two years ago, when AT&T got into the business of providing its own long-distance directory-assistance service rather than connecting its customers to Alice or Joe at the local phone company, with whom AT&T used to have an agreement...
...fatal blast occurred at 6:45 p.m. and shot flames into the air, sending four injured persons--Com Electric employees John Collins, Joe Crawler and Jim Cardenelli and a police officer whose name was not released--to Mass. General Hospital...
...opportunity to make millions of dollars by entertaining sports fans is a privilege, not a right, and moral principles should be part of it. Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier are real role models. Show the nonconformists like Mike Tyson [SPORT, July 14], Dennis Rodman and Roberto Alomar that when you are given this privilege and you lose control and "snap," you permanently lose the opportunity to compete. Teach these bad apples a lesson they can never forget: one snap and you're out. It would be a good lesson too for all the kids who look...
...Washington's shadowy power brokers operate best in secret, JOE GAYLORD is losing his mystique. It was bad enough when Gaylord, eminence grise to NEWT GINGRICH, was blamed for isolating the House Speaker, antagonizing enough Republican brethren to threaten Newt's leadership post earlier this month. Now it turns out Gaylord took $7,500 a month from a Republican think tank so cash starved that HALEY BARBOUR had to obtain a $2.1 million loan guarantee from a Hong Kong businessman to make good on its debts. The National Policy Forum's payments of about $112,000 to Gaylord...
...place like, say, New Delhi, it is Weld's liberal social views that have made him anathema to the most conservative leaders of his party. For Clinton, the real value of the appointment was getting Weld out of the Massachusetts governor's office so that a Democrat -- say Joe Kennedy, who wants the job -- would not have to run against the extremely popular Republican moderate. Now that Weld's stepped down, the President has little to gain by getting involved in the GOP's family fight...