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...their choices. Essentially, the plan (dubbed "Project Grand Slam") would be a financial quarantining of its ailing long-distance operation, which would get its own tracking stock and operate as a separate retail arm, according to reports. AT&T's wireless unit and cable television operation would each be spun off as an independent company over the next 12 to 24 months. The company's biggest and most profitable unit, the corporate-minded Business Services department, would become the new AT&T, and coordinate brand-licensing and commercial agreements with the other three...
...comes across better on the death penalty tonight - he seems serious, sober and not at all bloodthirsty - but by this time most of the reporters aren't listening; they're busy filing, exchanging "what-did-you-thinks" and getting ready to be spun. So busy that they almost miss Bush's big finish, the "If you're going to vote for my opponent, please only vote once" line, which gets the biggest laugh of the night...
...idea of importing stones by the truckload comports perfectly with the neighborhood's taste for surreal gestures, for mythomania. The peace process is dying because nothing rational can survive in this physics of rage. Perhaps the peace process has merely been a distraction, anyway, like Sheherazade's stories spun night after night to stave off inevitable execution...
...staff members were so excited by his performance that they spun themselves into a whopper, telling reporters they had been swamped with favorable calls from viewers around the country. Problem was, the show hadn't aired around the country; it had just finished taping in Chicago...
...Clinton was running for re-election against Bob Dole, gasoline prices shot up 20% in some states. Dole proposed repealing Clinton's 1993 gas-tax increase, and three days later the President responded. He seized on an obscure part of a bipartisan deficit-reduction bill and spun it as a relief measure for motorists. On a campaign trip to Florida, a state he had lost in 1992, the President announced that he had ordered the sale of 12 million bbl. from the SPR because the "rise in the price of gasoline...affects the take-home pay of working people...