Word: ued
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...race to bring capitalist know-how to Hungary has produced a contest between two telecommunications companies, Colorado-based U S West and Atlanta's Contel Cellular. In a $10 million joint venture with the Hungarian state telephone company, U S West is installing a cellular-phone system in Budapest that is to begin service by the end of the year. Contel has linked with private Hungarian partners to form a competing $35 million venture that will start service in Budapest by early...
Chapman's win amounted to a binding referendum on the future course of America's largest Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...
...known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed. At the Random House book-publishing conglomerate, the longtime chief executive, a key division head and five other senior editors...
...before Baker left for Moscow -- a breakthrough occurred. Gorbachev finally responded to Bush's letter. "We note the positive trends in Central America," Gorbachev wrote, "including the intention of your Administration and the U.S. Congress to 'give diplomacy a chance.' I agree that productive Soviet-U.S. engagement on regional questions will lead to a growing potential of goodwill in Soviet-U.S. relations." Gorbachev, it appeared, had bought the linkage. Then the Soviet leader added something of even greater importance: "In order to promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict, and bearing in mind that the attacks...
...whom one uses the word must if one is serious about changing his behavior. Fidel doesn't take orders from anyone." Almost as an aside, Pavlov wondered if it "had ever occurred to the U.S. that some of our friends have no interest in seeing an improvement in Soviet-U.S. relations...