Word: offers
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...bills remain on hold. Less than one-half of one percent of U.S. households receive competitive local service, according to a study by the Yankee Group consulting firm, and not a single Baby Bell has opened its home market enough, in the judgment of regulators, to be permitted to offer long-distance calling there. "This law has been a disaster," says Arizona Republican Senator John McCain...
...would certainly take away the advantage now enjoyed by GTE, which has some 20 million local customers scattered across 29 states. GTE (1996 sales: $21.3 billion) was never part of the Ma Bell monopoly, and thus is free to offer long-distance service to its local subscribers without having to open its own markets first. GTE has already signed up more than 1.25 million long-distance subscribers, snatching most of them from...
...inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth of his works to a proposed museum in his honor--he was born and raised there--after a local art critic said his work "stank." He says he might reconsider, and Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson will visit him this week to soften him up. Finally, poet...
...accepted the deal, it is very likely Hun Sen will not, considering it significantly weakens the absolute authority he is establishing in Cambodia. But while Hun Sen may stand firm, ASEAN, which gave Cambodia the boot last week in protests of his violent coup, will likely make him an offer he may find difficult to refuse: accept the deal or remain isolated from the bloc, a threat sure to resonate in a country as poor as Cambodia...
...scene, in case you've forgotten, goes like this: at a party celebrating his graduation from college, Benjamin Braddock, the Dustin Hoffman character, is pulled aside by Mr. Maguire, a friend of his parents who hopes to offer some career advice. "I just want to say one word to you," Mr. Maguire explains, his arm around Benjamin. "Just one word...