Word: sudden
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...sudden success of the microelectronics division is just one sign of the emergence of a new AT&T. While many large corporations such as IBM and General Motors are struggling to remake themselves, AT&T has apparently pulled off one of the most remarkable makeovers in U.S. corporate history. Although traditional long-distance service still accounts for 62% of its revenues, AT&T is no longer just a telephone company. Through acquisitions and homegrown start-ups, it has transformed itself into one of the most powerful -- and feared -- players in information technology...
Allen took charge of AT&T after the sudden death of CEO James Olson in 1988. Olson had guided the company through the painful period following the breakup of Ma Bell, when it chopped its labor force 19%, or 70,000 workers. It was Allen, though, who changed the company's lockstep culture. Going against tradition, he recruited top executives from outside, including Alex Mandl, former president of the Sea-Land ocean-shipping concern, as chief financial officer; Jerre Stead, former chief executive of electrical-equipment maker Square D, as head of the computer division; and Richard Bodman...
...Shaw recalls. "I ran all the way." Shaw was told that his son could not be revived. "I picked him up, held him and said goodbye." An autopsy yielded no clues to the tragedy. Like 7,000 other babies in the U.S. each year, Benjamin had fallen victim to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), or crib death, the leading cause of mortality for American newborns...
...fall of her sophomore year, a friend of Allen's told her of another woman who had been talking about doing something similar and "all of a sudden, eight people were saying, 'let's do this...
...that argument, not at all," Restic says. "I think that everybody's going to find out that you're going to spend more money bringing people back for pre-season than continuing the freshman program. It's been in existence since 1876, and all of a sudden there's something wrong with...