Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When he got here, I hugged him and we both just cried like babies. I said to Joe, 'What happened? You couldn't do anything bad. You're just too good a boy to do anything bad.' All he would say was, 'No, ma'am, Coach Bryant is right.' I told him to stay with me. He came out to the house and stayed several days in a room downstairs. Paul never did know it; I never told him." Says Namath: "She hid me out. It was a tough, trying time...
...Ma Bell is expecting. The announcement came last week as A T & T, the world's largest corporation, shuffled its management and company organization to prepare for the birth of an independent subsidiary. The new offspring, nicknamed Baby Bell, will battle IBM, Xerox and GTE's Telenet for supremacy in the burgeoning computer communications market. It will begin life as a giant with about 15% of Bell's $122 billion in assets, and by 1985 Baby Bell may be doing $10 billion worth of business...
When it comes to go-getter companies for the 1980s, the name Ma Bell does not leap readily to mind. For years the world's largest business enterprise, with assets of more than $114 billion, has also been one of the dullest. Its deserved reputation is that of a lumbering pachyderm, content with its status as a Government-protected monopoly that controls 83% of the U.S. telephone market...
...eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with its excessive!} popular pyramids ... in Hawai Waikiki. Avoiding Waikiki bring! up the whole question of why one'; gone to Hawaii at all, but that's exactly the problem...
Roland Von Huene, the U.S. Geological Survey ma rine geologist who first spot ted the curious object, recalls: "The center hole had clearly been made by tools...