Word: telegrapher
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...take over eleven major industrial groups, including the Dassault-Breguet aviation conglomerate, two steel companies, two chemical conglomerates, two high-technology firms and an electronics corporation. Three companies would be exempted from peremptory nationalization because of their significant foreign shareholdings: CII-Honeywell Bull (47% U.S.-owned), International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.'s French subsidiaries (99% U.S.-owned) and Roussel Uclaf Pharmaceuticals (57% West German-owned). The government will soon begin special negotiations with these firms on the terms of their eventual takeover. In general, said Mauroy, non-French shareholders would have a choice of cashing in now, selling their...
With some 40 antitrust lawsuits pending against it, the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (assets: $125 billion) is fast becoming one of the nation's most familiar courtroom defendants. Charged by competitors with service delays and unfair pricing to drive out competition, Ma Bell has entered into several agreements and is currently appealing a $1.8 billion antitrust award to MCI Communications Corp., which successfully argued that A T & T stalled in supplying telephone hookups needed for MCI to operate a rival long-distance telephone network...
...little Armenias: Saroyan's early years were spent in an orphanage after his father died and his mother had to work full time. Like the young bringer of good news and bad in his screenplay turned novel The Human Comedy, Saroyan began his working life as a telegraph boy. When his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze won an O. Henry Award in 1934, the message was clear: a literary career had been launched...
Glenn E. Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), which represents more than 625.000 employees of the American Telephone and Telegraph system (ATT), told a crowd of 50 people that "increased cooperation and consensus between employers and employees based upon the mutual benefits best serves the concept of democracy in the workplace...
Reversing one of those directions, Powell returns to London to make the rounds as an all-purpose book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator-whoever will have him, whatever the tome. In England, as in the New World, Powell seems to be on the outer edge of every circle-a well-bred failure in frayed shirts from Harrods...