Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monopoly on providing phone service in their areas. From now on anyone--cable company, long-distance provider or gutsy entrepreneur--can enter the market as well. In return, the local Bells, once they face competition in their home market, will be allowed to compete against AT&T, MCI and Sprint in the lucrative long-distance business. And any of these companies, technology permitting, will be able to cross over into the cable business to challenge systems that have long had an effective monopoly in their localities...
Rice and Harvard each achieved provisional qualifications for Nationals in the attention-grabbing distance medley relay. Spectators were on the verge of hysteria during the first two legs of the relay where Harvard struggled against Rice's sprint power...
...What it all means, this stunning sprint to judgement, no one really knows." --Boston Globe reporter Brian McGrory the day before O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the double-murder trial of the century...
...business. Other firms, including long-distance carriers, could also provide local phone service. Result: one-stop shopping in which companies would offer packages of telephone and TV services directly to the home. With that in mind, cable firms TCI, Cox Enterprises and Comcast last year joined forces with Sprint to develop a nationwide network for delivering cable and telephone signals to the same customers...
...fact, the House bill represents a balancing act of corporate interests that could still come crashing down. It teetered last week when AT&T, Sprint, MCI and nearly 500 other long-distance carriers bitterly challenged the provisions, added late in the game, that would permit the Baby Bells to jump into long-distance service before substantial competition arrived on the local level. Furious representatives of the long-distance industry swung from supporting the House bill to actively lobbying against it. On Friday a group of small long-distance carriers held a news conference with consumer groups to attack the bill...