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...cost up to $30,000 a year, T1 lines can handle enormous amounts of data at very high speeds. "If AT&T can put 50 million consumers on their network, then every business in America is going to want to buy T1s from AT&T," says Halsey Minor, CEO of C/Net, one of the largest publishers on the Internet. "Businesses like ours are going to want to buy from AT&T because that is where the customers...
...after he began cooperating with investigators, has been reduced to traveling with a security guard, and another guard watches over his two young daughters. His corporate career in the biomedical field, which until he worked at B&W had been on a steady upward trajectory ("I wanted to be CEO of a company," he confesses), has foundered. His marriage hit the rocks owing, he says, to the stress of battling his former employer. Nevertheless, Wigand, 53, tells Time that now that he has begun to talk, he has no plans to stop. Though he has been tied up in suits...
...Morris executive put it in the early 1970s, "smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimized dispenser of smoke," and that as early as 1963 B&W executives knew nicotine was addictive. "Of course it's addictive," F. Ross Johnson, former CEO of RJR Nabisco, told the Wall Street Journal two years ago. "That's why you smoke...
...lawyers are less quick with a response, however, when asked about what Florida assistant attorney general Jim Peters refers to as "the big bad bear out there": the federal perjury probe launched after seven tobacco CEOs testifying at the Waxman hearings swore that nicotine was not addictive. Philip Morris lawyers point out that their former CEO, William Campbell, did not say tobacco is not addictive: he only said he doesn't believe it is addictive, a "personal viewpoint he has every right to hold," says York. Some tobacco experts speculate that the tobacco industry may seek a deal in which...
...report saying the company didn't have to resolve a safety problem because he could "blow it by" the regulators. An NRC study says the number of safety and harassment allegations filed by workers at Northeast is three times the industry average. A disturbing internal Millstone report, presented to ceo Fox in 1991 and obtained by TIME, warns of a "cultural problem" typified by chronic failure to follow procedures, hardware problems that were not resolved or were forgotten, and a management tolerant of "willful [regulatory] noncompliance without justification." The report, written by director of engineering Mario Bonaca, changed nothing...