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...Brookline, MA and Eliot House...
...will need a much smaller headquarters staff after the split-up than it did when it was coordinating a vastly larger company, a case of past downsizing prompting more downsizing. Also, changes in federal and state telecommunications laws are likely to touch off fierce new competition among Ma Bell and her children, the Baby Bells. The Baby Bells could invade AT&T's long-distance business; AT&T can counterattack by muscling into the Baby Bells' local markets and also by offering cellular services and, later, portable wireless phones. Analysts think both Ma and kids will have to cut prices...
...book also suffers from MA's--Moments of Absurdity--which one can imagine Davis hoped would somehow sound odd and appealing, but are more often disconcerting, if not downright frightening...
...processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated the minds of young writers everywhere, such that they cannot imagine planes without "Top Gun" or spies without Sean Connery. Whatever the reason, we are, as a result, treated to such...
...establishing an architectural review committee with members drawn from the University as well as the Cambridge community. Such a committee should be given similar powers as the city's own Historical Commission to review--and even to veto--proposed alteration or demolition of Harvard buildings. Michael Kenney '57 Cambridge, MA...