Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks after the far-reaching agreement that settled the U.S. Government's seven-year-old antitrust suit against the company, AT&T officials are still trying to absorb all the implications. After 48 years as the world's largest corporate monopoly, Ma Bell faces the prospect of being freed from federal regulation to compete, like any other company, in whatever businesses it chooses to enter. The consequences for consumers and businesses alike are certain to be historic. Says Ralph Acampora, an investment analyst for the New York City brokerage firm of Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver...
...declared his intention to "litigate it to the eyeballs," announced that the Justice Department had reached an out-of-court settlement with A T & T. That ended the Government's seven-year antitrust pursuit of the world's largest corporation (1980 revenues: $51.7 billion). Under the agreement, Ma Bell-as the giant communications company is popularly known-will divest nearly two-thirds of its total assets by spinning off 22 local operating companies. But at the same time, it will retain its long-distance services and be able to enter new fields of data processing and telecommunications...
...Justice Department filed the suit against A T & T in 1974 during the Ford Administration. It charged Ma Bell with violating a 1956 consent decree that had settled an earlier Justice Department antitrust action against the company. Under the terms of the 1956 settlement, AT&T was permitted to retain ownership of Western Electric, but it agreed at the same time to restrict its future business activities to local and long-distance telephone services...
...Ma'alot in 1974, three Arab terrorists attacked a school and held 88 children hostage, 23 of whom were killed when the building was stormed. In Qiryat Shemona that same year, terrorists made an assault on an apartment house; eight children died in the fighting. There have been dozens of such incidents in recent years?sudden death visited upon an otherwise tranquil area. Black goats feed on scrub. Trees crop up in spurts. Cows graze in fields stained brown where the rockets have seared them...
...That's how we used to dance in our time, ma cher," said the count...