Word: united
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...very few experts expect that it will stop it. Other cable firms and telephone companies continue to move forward with combined ventures of their own. Among them: Time Warner and U.S. West, which last May put up $2.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that owns, among other things, cable outlets in 36 states. At the same time, Southwestern Bell and Cox Cable have teamed up to develop interactive TV systems of their...
...threat of renewed inflation? "The same people who worry about inflation saw Elvis a couple of weeks ago," quips New York economist Robert Brusca. Consumer prices last year rose a mere 2.7%, the second smallest increase in the past 18 years; Greenspan himself predicts only 3% this year. Unit labor costs, a prime indicator of future price increases, are going down. Critics think Greenspan is either pursuing a wildly unrealistic goal of zero inflation or following a simplistic syllogism: as a rule, rapid rises in output eventually bring inflation; production grew at an annual rate...
That recommendation--that a police lieutenant or sergeant be used to run the unit for at least one year--drew widespread support...
...manager said Harvard has become suddenly generous about spending money on the unit--a key recommendation of the report. Dowling said he now has money to buy "things I haven't seen in five years...
Dowling said he has taken the initiative on trying to heal the unit by publishing a newsletter called "The Communicator" which occasionally deals with issues of race and ethnicity...