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...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...
Local rates have been artificially low for years because state and federal regulators have required Ma Bell to use revenues from long-distance tolls to subsidize basic phone service. But in order to encourage sharper competition among AT&T and such new rivals as MCI and GTE Sprint, the FCC decided to do away with inflated long-distance rates. The agency ruled that when AT&T spins off its regional operating companies on New Year's Day, it will stop paying local subsidies, which now amount to about $10.7 billion. The new $2-a-month local charge is intended...
...competitors in the long-distance business welcomed the ruling. Said Mitchell Brecher, an attorney for GTE Sprint: "If AT&T and the operating companies were permitted to use the same logo, the public might think that they're part of a unified system." The rivals had argued that since AT&T will remain a long-distance carrier after the breakup, such identification would give it a competitive advantage...
...order their communication components from other suppliers rather than just from the Western Electric unit of AT&T. The judge also directed AT&T to help local phone companies recover the estimated $2.6 billion that it will cost to provide equal-quality access to long-distance carriers like Sprint or MCI, which compete with A T & T. If the local companies are unable to pay off the costs by 1994 through fees charged to the longdistance companies, AT&T will have to pick up the remaining expenses...
With 50 meters left to go at the USA/Mobil Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis, Carl Lewis glanced over his shoulder. The view was sweet. He was demolishing an Olympic-caliber field in the 200-meter sprint, and he was doing it at a world-record pace. Then, a wide smile cracking his chiseled features, Lewis tossed away the record by throwing his arms into the muggy night air ten yards before the finish. The crowd of nearly 11,000 roared in delight at the gesture...