Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Coach Tomassoni insists that championships are not won in November, that the season is a marathon rather than a sprint, it is time for the Crimson to start picking up the offensive pace...
Outside the U.S. the two companies, which already operate in 72 countries, want to plug into Europe and Asia in a big way. That would mean head-to-head battles with such rivals as the partnership between AT&T and Unisource, a group of European telecommunications firms, and Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. long-distance outfit, which is 20% owned by French and German phone companies. A rich prize will go up for grabs in January 1998, when members of the European Union open their sluggish state monopolies to fast competition...
...commercial printer, of all places--to find John Walter, its new president and heir apparent to CEO Robert Allen, who will retire in 1998, two years early. "When one of the world's largest companies loses its president and can't find anyone inside, what's going on?" asks Sprint CEO William Esrey...
Across the U.S., perplexed citizens are asking the same question. In the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, corporate giants like PrimeCo, AT&T and Sprint are racing to set up the networks of radio antennas that are required by the next generation of wireless communications services. Soon, enthusiasts promise, my neighbors and I will be able to stroll through a suburban mall--or a nearby forest preserve--while sending faxes, retrieving E-mail, even accessing the World Wide...
...roots campaigning with his wife and children, but he has to keep it up to win this seat, which was Democratic for 20 out of 24 years before Sam Brownback took it in the 1994 election. For Ryun, the athlete and politician, this race could come down to a sprint in the home stretch...