Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of A T & T's long-distance business can the new companies capture? Competitors predict that they could get 20% to 30%. The more likely share will be no more than 10% during the next year or two. Many consumers are as comfortable with their Ma Bell as they were with their Ma, and they will be slow to change...
...five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion released, he murmured glassy-eyed, "She is more beautiful than Cleopatra...
Despite the court-ordered divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph that took place on Jan. 1, reaching out and touching Aunt Maude in Dubuque has continued to be an expensive proposition. Ma Bell has long claimed that it was levying high rates on long-distance service as a way of keeping down the cost of local calls. Last week the Federal Communications Commission took a giant step toward rearranging that system by ordering AT&T to slash long-distance rates by 6.1% beginning May 25. The move could save American consumers up to $1.8 billion a year...
...troubling questions were sparked by pictures taken at the scene by two Israeli newspaper photographers, Alex Libak of Hadashot and Shmuel Rachmani of Ma'ariv. Libak's photograph shows a young man, handcuffed and looking uninjured, being led away from the bus by a pair of security officials dressed in civilian clothes. Rachmani's photograph shows another young man, head down and with a small trace of blood on his face, being hustled away by an Israeli brigadier general and two uniformed soldiers...
Many Americans seem to feel dismay over the whole breakup and are irritated by changes that are mainly small but still inconvenient. Says retired Salesman Jack Reiss, 83, of Harrisburg, Pa.: "I don't know why they broke up Ma Bell, but I wish they would put it back together." Concurs Larry Mixon, district manager for Southern Bell in Florida: "Human beings don't like change. They have a problem adjusting...