Word: touched
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Like what? For one thing, AT&T will need a much smaller headquarters staff after the split-up than it did when it was coordinating a vastly larger company, a case of past downsizing prompting more downsizing. Also, changes in federal and state telecommunications laws are likely to touch off fierce new competition among Ma Bell and her children, the Baby Bells. The Baby Bells could invade AT&T's long-distance business; AT&T can counterattack by muscling into the Baby Bells' local markets and also by offering cellular services and, later, portable wireless phones. Analysts think both...
COLOR PHOTO: MARK PETERSON--SABA FOR TIME THE BEAT GOES ON: Despite Bratton's tough policies, some community patrol officers, like John Cayenne of Brooklyn's 77th Precinct, still have a soft touch [Police officer John Cayenne with children...
...dependency? We must report how that works and think as honestly as we can about it, because it matters. Community policing? School vouchers? Sending troops to Bosnia? Violence in movies and music? These debates involve fascinating philosophies--and reportable facts--that have the power to intrigue our minds and touch our daily lives. Our goal must be to treat such issues seriously, thoughtfully, honestly...
...tried to be in touch with our members. We're saying: 'Save your receipts,'" Jaeger said. "We expect to officially announce the program within the next two weeks...
Maybe something could touch him; the 1987 death of his son Dean Paul in an Air National Guard plane crash cued more drinking in Martin, more severe solitude. With three marriages far behind him, he spent his final years dining alone nightly at an Italian eatery in Beverly Hills. At home this past Christmas Eve, he was attended only by a nurse. She gave him a last drink--water!--and he died. No grieving, please: the cowboy crooner finally rode off into the oblivion he always seemed to crave. And, as Dino might have observed, it beats working...