Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, no one really has to get up, because they all have a cell phone handy, and it doesn't cost anything extra to take the call that way. Best of all, this whole web of communication--via Internet, cable TV, hard-line and cell phone; whether for local calls or long distance--can be bought as a bundle for less than today's total cost of the same services, and paid on a single bill. It's from...
Just last week long-distance company MCI rolled out local-phone service to compete with Bell Atlantic in New York State, and launched a service, with America Online's CompuServe unit, to offer Internet access to households. "The barriers for who provides what are blurring," says Daniel Reingold, telecom analyst at Merrill Lynch. "Every player needs a full shelf of products...
...leveraged his stock's rising value in a series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone monopolies...
...portly special-ed teacher from Philadelphia is in prison in Honduras now, but once upon a time, as his diary relates, Daniel Gary Rounds was in "paradise." His paradise lies beyond the prison gates and through the storm-ravaged Honduran countryside. Just outside the local Pizza Hut in the town of La Ceiba, boys addicted to sniffing glue work the streets until gringos offer to buy them shoes or let the boys watch TV in their hotel rooms. For many it is a chance to take their first hot shower or get the $10 they need to buy several weeks...
Mere prattle without practice, say the incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary...