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PHONE WARS Last week MCI joined Sprint and Qwest in offering 5[cents]-a-minute calling rates, and market leader AT&T may follow suit. Meanwhile, Qwest announced unlimited Internet access and 250 minutes of long-distance calls for $24.95 a month. One caution: Carriers may slip in new fees or hijack your local toll-call service. Read your bill carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Sprint 5[cents] nights, 10[cents] days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...three-week, 2,287-mile Tour de France, Europe's premier bicycle race, is one of the world's great tests of human endurance. Every summer more than 10 million fans line the roadsides--and millions more tune in on TV--to watch the riders sprint, climb and sweat their way through every variety of French landscape. The race finishes on the Champs Elysees in Paris, where the winner gets a hero's welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ride of His Life | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...world record for the 100-m sprint, set by American Maurice Greene--a whopping 0.5 sec. faster than the previous record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jun. 28, 1999 | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...freeze to death in your shadow and, best of all, you cruise straight past the primaries and into the general election as "a uniter, not a divider," with none of the debts and scars and promises that slow candidates down just at the point when the campaign becomes a sprint. The Republican faithful would forgo their normal feedings of litmus tests and put up with this soggy message of "compassionate conservatism" because Bush has a message for them too. Three words: I can win. Now he just has to prove it will work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Chose George Bush? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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