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Word: sprint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with any clash of empires, the battle of the giants in telecommunications is going to make it difficult for anyone smaller to survive. GTE (1984 sales: $14.5 billion), for example, is having troubles with Sprint, its long-distance telephone service. MCI may have found the secret for survival by hitching its wagon to IBM's star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars of a Different Kind | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...rates starting July 1 and claimed the new fees would beat AT&T's prices by 5% to 35%. MCI's reductions would drive down the cost of a ten-minute weekend call between New York City and San Francisco to $1.71, from $1.82. Sprint, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based GTE, and Chicago's Allnet said they might cut their rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumbled Long-Distance Lines | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Though his specialty is the hurdles, he is also a talented 400 and 500 meter runner, and runs a leg in both the sprint relay and the mile relay...

Author: By Beck Hartman, | Title: Steve Ezeji-Okoye and John Perkins | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...last 800 of the 2000-meter race, the Black and White held off the Bruins' final sprint and finished nearly a boatlength (six seconds) ahead of Brown. Northeastern paddled in three seconds after the Bruins...

Author: By Linda A. Flaherty, | Title: Radcliffe Heavyweights Overcome Northeastern, Brown and Charles | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

After three successive wins, the first boat novies lost a heartbreaking race to the Eli's by two tenths of a second. The Radcliffe novices deminated until the final sprint when Yale bately ahead of the Black and Winte...

Author: By Linda A. Flaherty, | Title: Radcliffe Stuns Yale | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

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