Word: telegrapher
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Washington-based MCI Communications took on giant American Telephone and Telegraph in a courtroom more than a decade ago, charging it with monopoly practices that prevented MCI from competing equally in the domestic long-distance phone market. MCI won that action, along with damages of $600 million that were trebled by federal law to $1.8 billion. But AT&T appealed and won a dismissal of the award. Last week a new trial involving the old adversaries began. Purpose: to set once again the amount of damages AT&T should...
...from Star Wars (light saber battle on a catwalk), The Lord of the Rings (bows and arrows launched at giants), The Matrix (borg arms descending on an innocent civilization), and Braveheart (kilts and all). The scene borrows ideas without any of the necessary wit or engaging musical accompaniment to telegraph the satire of the scene...
...second season (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.; premieres March 6), Swearengen is under pressure as the territory prepares to be absorbed by the expanding U.S., bringing the threat of law and competition from corporations and other opportunists. When he sees workers putting up telegraph poles, what is progress to others is an encroachment on his action. "By all means, let's plant poles all across the country!" he shouts. "Festoon the c___sucker with wires to hurry the sorry word and blinker our judgments! Ain't the state of things sorry enough? Don't we already face enough f____in' imponderables...
Executives at Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, admit they've been watching the merger wave now engulfing U.S. phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge...
...whole picture runs much like an extended sitcom, complete with obtrusive music meant to telegraph the emotions of a given scene. And like a bad episode of 7th Heaven, the stakes don’t really exist. The characters are sheltered from the harshness of reality so that no matter what, every problem has its solutions. One can guess that this doesn’t make for very exciting drama. And with none of the memorable characters that help keep audiences attached to their favorite sitcoms, viewers of this film may be left wanting anything to keep their attention...