Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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France's and Germany's state-owned telephone companies will invest $4.2 billion to get a 20% share of Sprint, the third largest American long-distance carrier. The deal is the latest coupling in the matchmaking taking place as companies try to find partners in the race toward the information future. The move will give the European companies a share of the American market. AT&T protested the deal, pointing out that the two companies did not allow foreign firms to enter their markets...
...Sprint, the U.S.'s third largest long-distance carrier, confirmed that it was holding merger talks with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, the state-owned telephone companies of France and Germany. Sprint only recently broke off merger talks with Electronic Data Systems Corp...
...really moved on them in the last 200 meters," Hajek said. "If we had another 100 meters in the race, we could have pulled out the win. We're really concentrating on our sprint. We have really developed a strong move for the last little...
When the day finally comes, no one is happier than I am. My small group of faithful companions (some of them have been doing this longer than I have) and I pile into a car and park illegally somewhere in downtown Boston. Unable to walk, we sprint from the car to the ballpark. happier than clams, we find our unusually-poor seats and sit down...
...coupled with the company's own success, has brought MCI to new battlegrounds and face- to-face with a greater array of competitors. The long-distance contender must now worry about cable-television operators, power utilities and 400 other rivals in addition to its longtime foes, AT&T and Sprint. In response, MCI has rounded up some powerful partners and launched a counteroffensive designed both to defend its turf and to expand well beyond it. In January, MCI announced that it would spend $20 billion to upgrade its network with fiber optics and build its own "driveways" onto the national...