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...Seldom has anything so big ended so unceremoniously or uneventfully. Ma Bell simply walked offstage after 107 years, to no applause and no disruption in service. Millions of Americans picked up their telephones on New Year's Day and still got dial tones, as if nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...suit, brought on behalf of Gordon's improbably named 15-year-old nephew Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramaphone Getty, had been started by the teen-ager's father, J. Paul Getty Jr., 51, Gordon's older brother. The two siblings have seldom got along. Gordon's lawyers charged that oil company officials coerced J. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texaco and Getty Oil: History's Biggest Takeover? | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...hates to fly and visits Hollywood as seldom as possible. "It's real strange out there," he says. "Every time I go, I feel like I should take my passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Middle-market hoteliers have spruced up some of their rooms to pursue a segment of the population that seldom flinches at business downturns or high prices. Says Analyst Daniel R. Lee of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "It doesn't cost that much more to offer this. It takes a fluffier towel, a thicker carpet and a little better service. For that, these hotels charge a pretty hefty premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room at the Top | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...defend the University position in public. And the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) in the early 1970s can only be viewed as a tool of the administration, making it appear to be initiating change. The ACSR now makes non-binding suggestions which the Corporation seldom follows...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Remembering South Africa | 12/14/1983 | See Source »

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