Word: multimillions
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Many Barry supporters have long asserted that the mayor's problems with federal prosecutors were racially motivated. Cathy Hughes, a Washington businesswoman who owns a radio station and is host of a popular call-in talk show, scoffed that the best prosecutors could come up with was "a multimillion-dollar misdemeanor charge." Hughes, who is informally polling listener support for Barry, said, "The community is saying to him, 'Get well, come home, we're waiting...
...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 the breakdown. "Always have two lifelines...