Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another basic question that remains up in the air is the corporate shape of the divested telephone companies. Theoretically, AT&T could spin these off as 22 separate companies or even as one new and enormous operating company. Though 22 operating companies might produce administrative overlap and waste, simply creating a single megacom-pany could perpetuate the firm's current dominance over supplying telecommunications equipment...
...with A T & T, the Justice Department's suit against IBM became a black hole that swallowed up corporate resources. By the time the actual trial began in 1975, some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process...
...first time, rank-and-file militants threatened to spin...
Worldwide sales of the original Rubik's Cube, the six-sided brainteaser invented by ErnÖ Rubik, a Hungarian professor of architecture, have now passed the 10 million mark. Moreover, the perplexing puzzle has spawned a bountiful and profitable array of sequels, spin-offs and solution manuals that is turning into a minor industry...
...that he never got more than a C grade in high school or college and that when he was Governor of California, he would leave the office at 5 p.m., but with a briefcase full of work. Reagan took Barbara and his dogs Victory and Millie out for a spin in his battered 1963 Jeep. Inadvertently, he hauled up close to the edge of roadside embankment. Said Walters off camera: "You know, if we roll down one more inch, we'll be off this precipice." Replied Reagan cheerfully: "I'll just have to remember reverse from forward...