Word: telegrapher
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...exactly a battle of titans. A pre-election poll for the Sydney Telegraph showed that neither Incumbent Prime Minister William McMahon nor Opposition Leader Edward Gough Whitlam was regarded as trustworthy by a majority of the Australian electorate. An editorial in the Melbourne Age said that voters faced a choice between "the flawed pragmatism of McMahon versus the flawed vision of Whitlam." But in a nation where failing to vote can bring a $10 fine, it was a choice that had to be made. Last week the Aussies made it. They rejected the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition government...
...granting a rate increase to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week, the Federal Communications Commission took an action that will help to buttress the U.S. stock market, prop up capital spending and hold down interest charges. When AT&T rates and profits rise, many things happen in the broader realm of business. First, AT&T stock gets a lift; because it is the most widely held issue of all-3,750,000 investors directly own 549 million shares-a rise in "telephone" tends to give a psychological impetus to the whole market. Second, the company can more easily draw upon...
...White House count, the President has given seven previous, on-the-record interviews: to TIME, the New York Times, each of the TV networks (CBS twice), and the London Sunday Telegraph...
...enlightened employers have concluded that work, not workers, must change. Says Robert Ford, personnel director at American Telephone & Telegraph: "We have run out of dumb people to handle those dumb jobs. So we have to rethink what we're doing." In restructuring work, corporate experimenters have hit on a number of productive and promising ideas. Among them...
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., the nation's largest private employer, has often been assailed by civil rights and women's rights leaders, who charge that the company has lagged in hiring and promoting blacks and members of other minorities. Yet the 1964 Civil Rights Act expressly forbids any such discriminatory hiring policies by Government contractors like AT&T. Last week the General Services Administration, which monitors contractors' employment practices, worked out what it called a "landmark" agreement with AT&T. Under the new pact, the company will hire and advance thousands of women workers and minority...