Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picket lines, the mood was militant. In Denver, strikers carried signs that read MA BELL ABUSES HER KIDS. Violence occasionally erupted. In Brooklyn, strikers tossed eggs at people crossing a picket line and scuffled with police. Three officers suffered cuts and abrasions, and three strikers were arrested for disorderly conduct or inciting to riot. In Atlanta, Picketer B.J. Griffin was hit in the mouth with a BB, apparently fired by a sniper, outside a downtown Southern Bell office. After spending the night in a hospital, Griffin was back on the line the next morning...
Yankees 6. Detroit 5 (10 ma...
...that, as one U.S. Special Forces officer puts it, "they have a deadly serious live-or-die fight on their hands." Says one outspoken U.S. military analyst: "These guys have got to start thinking about more than their pretty uniforms and cocktail parties. They have to get over that mañana attitude. There is no more time left for that...
Local rates have been artificially low for years because state and federal regulators have required Ma Bell to use revenues from long-distance tolls to subsidize basic phone service. But in order to encourage sharper competition among AT&T and such new rivals as MCI and GTE Sprint, the FCC decided to do away with inflated long-distance rates. The agency ruled that when AT&T spins off its regional operating companies on New Year's Day, it will stop paying local subsidies, which now amount to about $10.7 billion. The new $2-a-month local charge is intended...
...this side of E Street. This show is about the fall and rise of David Bowie. A little regeneration and a little dancing in the aisles, a touch of optimism and a double dose of rhythm and blues and, as the man himself once said, wham bam, thank you, ma...