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...others, who are worried that the Bells would use their clout in local markets and local politics to steer customers toward signing up with them for long-distance service. Competitors fret too that the Bells already have the phone lines, switches and other equipment in place to enable them to enter the long-distance business before new companies can begin to offer local service...
...MEND IT" One of those Republicans did more than just talk. California Governor and presidential aspirant Pete Wilson used his position as head of the University of California board of regents to help steer a measure ending affirmative-action policies at the huge and prestigious nine-campus institution. Demonstrators, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, protested the decision...
...second-largest takeover in U.S. history (behind the $25 billion takeover of RJR-Nabisco in 1989) and the largest ever in the media business. Getting hitched to family-friendly Disney may mean top-rated ABC will see its competitors exploiting new counterprogramming opportunities. "I think ABC will probably steer away from the more lurid programs, which might make the other networks go in that direction," said Time's Jeffrey Ressner in Los Angeles. The merger, already approved by the boards of both companies, is expected to pass regulatory muster as well...
...organ is morally reprehensible. It leads to fears about the wealthy procuring organs much faster and leaving the poor at an incredible disadvantage. Also, this method has been tried in Third World nations. The chaos it has created in Egypt with a black market for organs should steer other countries away from trying...
...compromise Republican right. But because of his long years as a Senate dealmaker, the party's most insatiable conservatives still have deep misgivings about Dole. In recent weeks they have been venting them on Burke, the person most likely to run his White House as chief of staff or steer social policy as Secretary of Health and Human Services. It is nothing short, says Burke, of "an orchestrated effort to get Dole to remove me from my job." Dole says that will not happen and bristles at suggestions that she somehow controls him. "I don't know...