Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's smart, because local rivals like Chicago-based Ameritech (1996 sales: $14.9 billion) are getting ready to join the race too. While the Justice Department recommended that regulators reject Ameritech's application to provide long-distance service in June, Justice said the company had satisfied 11 of 14 requirements for opening its market. The Baby Bell still has a month to make up the deficiencies before the FCC rules. Richard Notebaert, Ameritech's chomping-at-the-bit chairman and CEO, can't wait to grab part of the $9 billion long-distance market in the five states that...
...decide whether he's going to retire or stay. He can't decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will get back on track." Some of that wondering showed in AT&T's closing stock price: down 1 5/16 to $35. What AT&T needs, says Kadlec, is a discernible plan. "They have...
...wrong fights with Bill Clinton and then by not giving up when it came out the loser. Now, as both sides prepare for what could be a month-long battle over how to shape the first tax cut in 16 years, Republicans face an entirely new question: Are they smart enough to know when they...
...neurotic as the Stewart character could be, it was for the most part anti-erotic. Smart city gals (Hepburn, Sullavan, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, nearly the whole fabulous constellation of '30s star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...
...same way for more than 80 years. Major companies are leading the way by telling traditional agencies that their business model is wrong for the times. The silver lining is the opportunity for small, creatively driven agencies to play in a game that was once dominated by the giants. Smart marketers will embrace the change. JEFFREY J. HICKS Miami...