Word: phoned
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Police have not identified the culprits, who smashed the windows of three cars. The victims reported a cellular phone, $20 in change, a black leather jacket and a pair of glasses stolen...
Just last week long-distance company MCI rolled out local-phone service to compete with Bell Atlantic in New York State, and launched a service, with America Online's CompuServe unit, to offer Internet access to households. "The barriers for who provides what are blurring," says Daniel Reingold, telecom analyst at Merrill Lynch. "Every player needs a full shelf of products...
...Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone monopolies...
Judging from the number of shoes on back order at Prada stores, it doesn't appear that real-life affluent women are doing all that much divesting. But here we have it anyway: a new, collective TV homage to lives of greater meaning and lower cell-phone bills. Perhaps CBS's soon-to-be-shelved sitcom Maggie Winters suffered because it didn't give its heroine a holier or more wholesome life-style alternative. Instead, it relocated a dumped Faith Ford from Chicago to her mother's house in Indiana for bonding and the occasional line dance...
ONLINE TRADERS BEWARE Ever tried to get your broker on the phone for an urgent trade, only to be greeted by a constant busy signal? That's what happened to E*Trade customers for three days last week when a software glitch prevented the site from executing trades for an hour or two. The incident, which came only a week after SEC chairman Arthur Levitt warned traders about the dangers of Net stock mania, spurred New York State's attorney general to launch an investigation into the booming industry. Some online brokers, hit with a flood of service complaints...