Word: sprint
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...most complex problem might be this: if you were a local phone company with 100% of the market, how helpful would you be in allowing a competitor into the area? Exactly. Although would-be warriors such as AT&T, MCI ($18.5 billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well-capitalized companies, they can't duplicate the $100 billion infrastructure of switches, wires and poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into...
...collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
...solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband. By 1990, as the first hints of the Internet emerged, the company went public. The founding couple left, while Cisco began its sprint to stardom...
Thoroughbred training and quarter-horse training are obviously a breed apart, but the latter requires a horse sense and work ethic that Baffert put to good use once he decided to run with the big boys. His first major success came with Thirty Slews, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 1992. By 1995 he was the leading trainer at Santa Anita. At last year's Kentucky Derby, he saddled Cavonnier, who lost by a nose to Grindstone--trained by Lukas. "I actually thought we had the race won," says Baffert, "so when they posted the results, it felt like...
...Justice only worked as a sprint," says Gorelick. "I was losing touch with elements of my community--the synagogue, the kids' school. At the same time, I was losing the desire to be flat out [at Justice] on my toes every minute to think, live and breathe that...