Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Bell over the years has unfairly obstructed the interconnection with the AT&T system of non-Western Electric terminal equipment, telephones, satellites, mobile telephones, microwave facilities and data-transmission gear. But the trustbusters' chances of forcing Bell to give up Western Electric are uncertain. They did not succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs...
...consent decree, which suggests Government approval of Bell's ownership of Western Electric, casts a long shadow. In any case, antitrust officials concede privately that they are so uncertain about the possible economic impact if they succeed in their suit that they are undecided as to how hard they should press for their maximum demands. Says one Antitrust Division spokesman: "We're leaving enough room to avoid any possibility of financial destruction of the company or destruction of the national telephone system...
Sanders said he hoped Banks's rebounding would enable the team to succeed in more fast breaks this season. "But to fast break," Sanders said, "you've got to control the defensive boards and limit the offense to one shot every time. Brain is an excellent defensive rebounder, and I hope that he will give us better board strength...
...eventually convicted of murder and is now in prison. The murders sent shock waves of indignation across the coal fields. Shortly afterward, Miller, who had risen to prominence in West Virginia as president of the insurgent Black Lung Association, was chosen at a meeting of anti-Boyle factions to succeed Yablonski and lead the reform movement...
...William A. Anders, 41, a former astronaut, who will take over what remains of the AEC (basically its safety and regulatory operations). He will succeed Dixy Lee Ray, 60, who has been the highest-ranking woman in the Administration. Ray will become Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Matters-an office that was created in 1973 but never filled...