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...most recent proposed long-distance rate cut to an average of 11.8%, by far the largest in its 101-year history. If approved, the new charges would take effect on June 1. AT&T's new boss, like its old one, clearly wants to keep Ma Bell's lock on the lucrative long-distance market...
...Governor. I have no plans to run for the presidency." When reporters pressed him about 1988, Cuomo tap-danced around their questions. Why did he not end all the speculation and say he would not run for President? asked one reporter. "I don't want to lock the door against eventualities that I don't even understand or imagine," replied Cuomo, as if instructing a class of stubborn undergraduates. "I'm not God. If you have a crystal ball, if you can tell me what's going to happen, fine. But I can't." Asked directly whether he would pledge...
...income tax returns--but almost nothing from 1967. The biographer ransacked Vidor's three houses, prying up attic floorboards, prowling through crawl spaces. After three weeks of searching, he found a padlocked strongbox in the garage of Vidor's Beverly Hills guesthouse. With a tire iron he smashed the lock, and there it all was, Vidor's archive on the Taylor murder. Kirkpatrick is a writer whose prose is merely serviceable, but the story that he has unearthed is a spellbinder...
...right. It is to produce results." The Cuban-born executive, trained as a chemist, has generated criticism aplenty since he took the helm in 1980. Some of that controversy began well before he tampered with Merchandise 7X, the secret Coke formula that has been kept under corporate lock and key ever since the soft drink's invention...
...assume. When interest rates were high, as they were for most of the decade, many consumers had little choice but to hope that rates would soon fall. Buyers assumed adjustable-rate mortgages, in which payments move up and down along with current interest rates. Today many consumers want to lock in low rates. In August 1984, fixed-rate loans represented only 32% of all new mortgages. Now their share...