Word: ma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure I'll get something out of it when I do get around to reading them," says John Ma '93, who says he spent over $50 on Coles' books, but rarely opened any of them. "None of the reading is absolutely required," Ma says...
...collapse of its network came at a time of increased vulnerability for , AT&T. Although Ma Bell still carries 70% of the U.S.'s long-distance traffic (down from 90% five years ago), it has been fighting a rearguard action to keep its customers from defecting to its feisty competitors, MCI and US Sprint. The glitch simultaneously deflated AT&T's multimillion-dollar "reliability" advertising campaign and handed its competitors a once-in- a-career sales pitch. "An important message to everyone whose telephone is the lifeline of their business," began a print ad rushed out by US Sprint after...
Bolcom cheerfully quotes a colleague as saying that he is the only serious composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne...