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...friends or family, your boss or stockbroker--even while you're trekking in the Himalayas? If you didn't have to lug around one of those briefcase-size satellite phones, but instead had a cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they can answer those questions. In their effort to find that...
...like Sacramento to have one-stop service to 200 cities," says American spokesman Chris Chiames. "If we didn't have the hub system," asserts Northwest spokesman Marta Laughlin, "we wouldn't have the number of passengers that are needed for the volume of service we offer. You pay a premium for convenience and accessibility...
...little to do with fabricated articles, however egregious those fabrications were. The real forces that push journalism toward fiction are the changes in the way that people get their news. With the rise of Internet and 24-hour news channels, the news cycle has irreversibly changed, putting a high premium on a network or newspaper's turnaround time--the idea is to get out a report or a commentary as quickly as possible...
With minority coaches at a premium in thecollegiate ranks, the most qualified candidatesare choosy, and Harvard does not measure...
...provide local calling--plus a full package of communications and entertainment services--than to scoop up TCI, the second-largest U.S. cable operator after Time Warner? Never mind that the final price of $31.5 billion in AT&T stock was a lofty $8.5 billion premium over TCI's market value. Or that Malone's cable-TV wires, which run through neighborhoods with 33 million homes (about a third of all U.S. households), were mostly a year or more away from the upgrades needed to carry two-way phone traffic. Or even that Malone's record as a visionary...