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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Problems, Small Progress | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for More: Money, that is, as rates go up | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

Generations have grown up thinking of American Telephone & Telegraph (1982 sales: $65.7 billion) simply as Ma Bell. Last week Federal Judge Harold Greene took away the Bell. Greene ruled that the name as well as the company's blue-and-white telephone logo should belong to A T & T's local phone companies when they split off into seven independent units on Jan. 1, 1984. The judge also decreed that only A T & T's Bell Laboratories and foreign operations could continue using the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bell Wrung | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Bowie Rockets Onward | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...Ma chère Maman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obeying Pain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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