Word: telegrapher
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Finely Tailored. But many sections have "special interest" items-60 at least-that benefit groups of middle-and upper-income taxpayers and, in several cases, individual companies. There is, for example, an employee stock-ownership provision written to specifications of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Another part, liberalizing investment tax credits, would mainly benefit airlines and utilities. So finely tailored are some provisions that Senator Edward Kennedy, a reform leader, likens them to legislation for a "one-eyed, bearded man with a limp...
...until her 1974 dismissal by President Idi Amin, pulled a hat trick -she scored three times. Defeated were: the Daily Express, which had printed Amin's false accusation that the princess had indulged in a sexual encounter in a public lavatory at Paris' Orly Airport, the Sunday Telegraph, which wrongly claimed she was pregnant with Amin's baby, and the Sun, which mistakenly put her name in the caption for a nude photo. Meanwhile, Movie Stars Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood won a suit against Reveille, a British picture magazine that had claimed they were headed...
...cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats, all of which helped make the U.S. standard of living the highest in the world. Plenty gave the nation the opportunity...
...been at war with itself, Beirut managed to deal quite resiliently with its misfortunes. Even as the war grew ever more ferocious, the structures of state collapsed one after the other, and artillery pounded away, some services continued to work almost normally. Until the very end, gutsy P.T.T. (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) officials kept telex and telephones alive, while Middle East Airlines, the country's flag carrier, flew in and out of a sandbagged airport that frequently took mortar fire, until it finally closed. Food prices soared, but cart vendors always seemed to have fresh produce for sale. Merchants...
Despite a 37% expansion in legal staff under Kauper, the antitrust division is still undermanned and overworked. Partly as a consequence, division lawyers are toning down their claims of direct consumer benefit from two of the major antitrust actions still pending: a suit to force divestiture by American Telephone & Telegraph of its subsidiary, Western Electric, and one against IBM aimed at reducing its influence in the digital computer market...