Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This deal amounts to a huge bet that you will come to see a rejuvenated Ma Bell as a benevolent Ma Everything, offering local and long-distance telephone service, high-speed Internet access and new television options such as video on demand, all bundled into that little white wire...
...because of the synergies Armstrong's strategy made possible. No other company was in a position to provide each of MediaOne's subscribers with as wide an array of services and soak up all those revenue streams. (Think about it: Would you rather buy phone service from your local cable company or AT&T?) No other company, in other words, could justify the $4,700 per subscriber that AT&T was willing to pay. "Bottom line: we can bring more value to the MediaOne assets, and we can get more value out of the MediaOne assets, than any other company...
...long-distance business suffered a 3.4% decline in the face of stiff competition from MCI WorldCom and Sprint. Also worrisome: AT&T's wireless-telephone business is in danger of being lapped by Sprint PCS. MediaOne provides AT&T with sorely needed growth opportunities in previously closed markets, particularly local telephone. "That's what AT&T really knows how to do," says Armstrong. "We're going to be the lowest-cost product out there...
...counseling. But is it necessarily helpful? The huge growth in such on-the-scene therapy has raised questions about the value of pouring out one's grief to the social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and clergy who are invariably on hand at disasters to lend empathic support. If local resources feel the strain, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, National Organization for Victim Assistance and a host of other nonprofit organizations send in volunteers. During presidentially declared disasters, the Center for Mental Health Services contributes federal funds for counseling. It spent $10 million last year...
...grew up watching her industrialist father giving money to charity while her housewife mother gave time. But now Crane is chief executive of the family's $150 million-a-year plastics company in Columbus, Ohio, and gives more than $50,000 a year to her favorite charities, like a local children's advocacy group. "I earned the money," she says. "I've never had any discomfort writing a check...