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...part of another split, this one three ways, last year. So now somebody wants to put Ma Bell back together, replacing fruitful spin-offs with questionable mergers. That is what this deal--twice the size of any previous merger--is all about. SBC is the old Baby Bell Southwestern Bell plus the Baby Bell it recently acquired, Pacific Telesis. If the deal goes through, AT&T will have gathered two erstwhile independent carriers back into its fold. It's a short step from there to continue to buy. Might it be a good thing? Well, maybe. Global competition...
...Anadarko, Okla., see little more than a sleepy tourist trap of a town. What they are missing is what 20 lucky visitors (ages 6 and older) will see, starting July 6, when they join anthropologist Robert Vetter for a highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs...
...vogue for southwestern decor and food may be as passe as the vogue for Northwestern rock bands, but New Mexico retains its grip on the national imagination, fighting off contenders like Florida (South Beach! Backyard gators!) and North Dakota (Partial site of a Coen brothers movie!) for the title of America's coolest state. Why is New Mexico still the champ? One word: Roswell...
...Hispanic users in the U.S.," he says. The notion of taking on mammoth American firms is in keeping with the ambitions of multibillionaire Slim, widely assumed to be Mexico's richest man. His Grupo Carso holding company was already worth $1.2 billion in sales in 1990 when, along with Southwestern Bell and France Telecom, he bought 20% of stodgy, state-owned Telmex for $1.8 billion...
Oblivious to the commotion he is causing, Keating table-hops and shakes hands with hotel staff. The guy acts as if he still owns the joint, as if he's still a Southwestern Gatsby peddling hundreds of millions of dollars of soon-to-be-worthless junk bonds to elderly Southern Californians. Can Keating still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating...