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...rates, though, of only $1.75 billion. But last week the FCC, after looking into A T & T's figures, delayed until April 3 the imposition of the access charges, which range from $2 for private residential lines up to $6 for businesses. Brown described the FCC's switch as "astounding." Said he: It "throws existing plans awry." The access charges have been under attack since they were first proposed by the FCC. They have become a target of Washington politicians who see them as burdensome to their poorer constituents and are pressing for two bills to block them...
...such an unusual switch, from a primary role in foreign affairs to a secondary one in domestic policy, that Washington buzzed for days with speculation about Reagan's and Clark's motives, slighting the more consequential question: Who would replace Clark as the chief White House adviser on foreign and military policy? From the beginning, the obvious candidate was Clark's top deputy, Robert McFarlane, a seasoned and pragmatic professional in national security affairs. But as always when a powerful post is up for grabs, there were other contenders. Officials who feared that "Bud" McFarlane would not be a forceful...
Each time a switch is made, said Gizzi. "It's a whole adjustment--new quarterback, different speed, different quickness...
Harvard's Graduate School of Education started an elite program this fall to help professionals switch to teaching in midcareer. One of the seven "students" in the pilot program is Jim Selman, 59. With his children through college and his mortgage paid off, Selman is quitting his $50,000-a-year job as an electrical engineer at Mitre Corp. Mitre is paying Selman's $8,320 tuition. When he finishes the program, which includes 14 weeks of student teaching, Selman will be accredited to teach science and math in Massachusetts schools, and he is looking forward to being...
...pain to operate." Massachusetts Attorney Thomas Christo, who specializes in computer law, says intense competition leads to hard-sell tactics that hurt the customer. Among them: "low balling," that is, selling a computer that has an attractively low price but is too small to be useful, and "bait and switch," trading up a low-balled customer to a more expensive model. Says Christo: "The vendor is the fox among the lambs...