Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case for its claim that Bell over the years has unfairly obstructed the interconnection with the AT&T system of non-Western Electric terminal equipment, telephones, satellites, mobile telephones, microwave facilities and data-transmission gear. But the trustbusters' chances of forcing Bell to give up Western Electric are uncertain. They did not succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier...
...consent decree, which suggests Government approval of Bell's ownership of Western Electric, casts a long shadow. In any case, antitrust officials concede privately that they are so uncertain about the possible economic impact if they succeed in their suit that they are undecided as to how hard they should press for their maximum demands. Says one Antitrust Division spokesman: "We're leaving enough room to avoid any possibility of financial destruction of the company or destruction of the national telephone system...
Whether or not Epps's opinion has been taken to heart by the administration is uncertain, but according to Bell, the original movement to increase the number of blacks at the college has died down. Bell says he believes that the gradual demise of the effort has adversely affected the credibility of blacks already here. "The longer a black teacher remains the only one in a department, the more eroded his credibility becomes," Bell says...
...reckoned that they deserved still more. By last week's end, the union's Bargaining Council, made up of key officers, had not yet approved the contract and ran into surprisingly long arguments over its fine points. Meanwhile, the outcome of the membership-wide vote was uncertain...
...married life came unstrung last year, according to friends, when the stormy temper and uncertain moods of Lady Lucan, the former Veronica Duncan, drove him from the house. Some emotional scenes followed, and the judge in charge of the case made their children wards of the court, although they remained at home with their mother...