Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argues that the only way to maintain fierce competition in the electronic communication realm is to regulate the activities of communications providers. He also seems to be under the belief that an expanded Washington bureaucracy is better equipped to handle the complexities of communications management than the businesses who profit from the creation of new markets, amongst other misguided notions. I would like to make a few comments to the contrary...
...this long-distance provider was just too good for its own good. Service was excellent, rates were competitively low. Ma Bell could easily attract new customers by this attractive mix of low rates and outstanding service. The anti-trust laws couldn't allow a company to use its great profit margin to keep up this excellent service, so they broke up Ma Bell. As a result of this regulatory interference, the "Baby Bells" had to raise rates and decrease service because they lacked the financial strength that gave Ma Bell the serious advantage that it enjoyed. Government regulation...
This recommendation would apply only to students who use the fruits of their research in a not-for-profit setting...
...profits from the play went to Community Servings, a non-profit Boston organization that delivers hot meals to people who are home-bound with AIDS, Talusan said...
...involvement is not going to prevent the folks at alt.drunken.bastards from discussing the finer points of cheap beers, or the readers of the newsgroup alt.philosophy.zen from striving towards greater spirituality. In fact, it is the free-flowing, gossipy nature of these electronic communities, the specific absence of an underlying profit motive, that gives them their strength and charm...