Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are 800 songs in this remarkable volume, and naturally many of them deserve their place at the bottom of the trunk. Who but a historian will ever want to hear The Social Coach of All.the Fashionable Future Debutantes or Since Ma Got the Craze Espagnole? But the best remain fresh and audacious in form as well as style. Begin the Beguine was the longest popular song ever written: 108 measures, as against the standard 32. Night and Day has an A-B-A-B-C-B rhyme scheme, rarely heard before or since...
...Ma Bell is gone and big problems face the eight baby companies she spawned...
Seldom has anything so big ended so unceremoniously or uneventfully. Ma Bell simply walked offstage after 107 years, to no applause and no disruption in service. Millions of Americans picked up their telephones on New Year's Day and still got dial tones, as if nothing had happened...
...proven its effectiveness," should remain off the Lebanese coast. Colorado Senator Gary Hart charged that Reagan "gave the phony impression of assuming responsibility, but it wasn't his job to put up fences and sandbags in Leba non. The hook he is on is how to get the Ma rines out of Lebanon...
...part of the breakup of the phone company, which will take place Jan. 1, A T & T last week filed 53,000 documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The papers projected 1984 sales, profits and dividends for the eight companies that will come into existence when the familiar Ma Bell is split up. The first quarterly dividend next year for all eight firms is expected to total $1.365 per current share of A T & T stock. That is 1½? more per share than the old A T & T has been paying for the past three years. Said Robert...