Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic congestion. As for the bank, it now gives me interest on my checking account, which is nice, but then sticks me with a $5 fee every time I drop below my minimum balance. Our family's long-distance bill has gone down, but somehow the total phone charges have gone way up. And look at the trucking business: the bill was only $500 when I moved a load of furniture from 400 miles away, but I'm scared to be on the same highway with one of those killer rigs...
...however, is seriously proposing to reassemble AT&T. "These are eggs that can't be unscrambled," said Missouri's John Danforth, the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee. Instead, the Administration wants to encourage competition by deregulating the regional phone companies even further to allow diversification into such fields as insurance, real estate and computer manufacturing...
...large, consumers who make enough money to take advantage of lowered prices in sufficient quantity, and those canny enough to understand the widening array of choices, will reap the most benefits. Conversely, poor people, who are strained by high minimum-balance requirements at banks and steep local phone rates, may be faring the worst. Says David Schwartzman, economics professor at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan: "Low-income customers have been the real losers in deregulation. They don't use long-distance service, they don't have large deposits at banks, and they don't fly much." Organized...
...would make it much more expensive to send and receive electronic data over telephone lines. More than 1.7 million household and business customers with computers subscribe to about 3,000 electronic-informati on services, which furnish everything from stock- price quotes to job listings. The information passes from the phone line to the computer through a connective device called a modem. These services are carried by data networks, which under the FCC plan would have to pay $4 to $5 an hour per user to local phone companies for the right to transmit and receive material over their lines...
...sent prices zooming out of control by 1979. G. William Miller, who had served only 17 months as Fed chief, was proving ineffective against the growing crisis. Suddenly one day in July, while Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon was cooling off in his backyard pool, he got an urgent phone call from President Jimmy Carter, who wanted suggestions for a new Fed boss. "Paul Volcker," Solomon replied with little hesitation. "Who's that?" Carter asked, not recognizing the name of the head of the Fed's New York branch...