Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such concerns have since diminished. AT&T no longer provides local telephone service, and competitors have eroded the company's long-distance dominance. Recognizing those facts, the Federal Communications Commission last week reversed its 1980 decision and allowed AT&T to merge its long-distance and phone-equipment businesses. The ruling means that AT&T will no longer have to send different sales representatives to customers to sell services and hardware...
...jubilantly announced that the FCC decision would allow it to save hundreds of millions of dollars annually by eliminating overlaps in areas such as marketing and administration. As a result, AT&T said, it will be able to offer customers lower prices on phone and computer equipment...
...their corporate performance. Sales edged up in recent months, and the company plans a hefty advertising campaign during the remainder of the year. The Apple II series will receive special attention, along with a host of new products. Among them: a modem that is some 30% cheaper than other phone-line hookups now on the market, and a new printer...
...final major-league at bat, Rose stroked a clean single to left center on a 2-1 slider from Eric Show in the first inning of a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. "You missed a good ball game tonight," Rose told President Reagan over the phone. For some reason, Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President Chub Feeney missed it too. Not only did Rose score both runs and make a defensive dive for the final out, but unbelievably in the seventh inning, he duplicated his inaugural 1963 triple off Pittsburgh's Bob Friend, an identical...
...related complex (ARC) and her nine-year-old brother, even though he is not ill. In Washington, a child with AIDS is tutored alone in a separate room at school, and in Kokomo, Ind., a 13-year-old hemophiliac with the disease has been instructed at home over a phone hookup...