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The 1,450 data bases that now exist in the U.S. range from general information services like the Source, a Reader's Digest subsidiary in McLean, Va., which can provide stock prices, airline schedules or movie reviews, to more specialized services like the American Medical Association's AMA/NET, to real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Prepare the pudding with 1 1/2 cups of milk You don't need a rotary beater, just beat briskly with a fork. Chill (Pudding is not absolutely necessary for the recipe to work well, so only use it if you really like pudding.)

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Recipes for a Dorm Room | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

For many years American Telephone and Telegraph used its monopoly powers to stifle competition from other manufacturers of telephone equipment by simply not allowing customers to use phones except those manufactured by its subsidiary, Western Electric. But a federal court ruling in 1968 opened the market to all comers, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Buy or Rent | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

The subject is clouded by some complex, tentative provisions of the settlement earlier this year of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against AT&T, which will lead to divestiture of its 22 operating subsidiaries early in 1984. Then ownership of the phones in customers' homes will revert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Buy or Rent | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

For example, customers of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, the largest subsidiary in the system, currently pay $1.08 per month, or a total of $12.96 per year, to rent a standard rotary-dial phone. Under one of Pacific Tel's deals, subscribers can choose to pay an additional 660 a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Buy or Rent | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

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