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...series of famous essays, Vail put forth the idea that fatter profits are not the be-all and end-all of a corporation. Service counts more, he wrote, and the Bell System could deliver it best by being a regulated monopoly that struck a balance between public and private interests. In a 1908 advertising campaign, Vail sounded the theme that prevailed until the current divestiture: "One system, one policy, universal service...
...urging people to stick with the more rigorous 1959 guidelines. "The more you weigh, the more heart attack, heart failure and even stroke in some groups," said Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the well-known major study of heart disease under way in Framingham, Mass. "The fact that fatter people are living longer may merely reflect the growing success of medical intervention in weight-related ailments," said Dr. Virgil Brown, chairman of the A.H.A. nutrition committee...
...character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years?in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal to me," he says. He looks to the Queen for comfort, he says, "because she's jolly solid. We'll miss...
...MAYOR WHITE is not finished yet, the media consensus not with standing White's opponents certainly had little to cheer about when The Globe reported on January 8 that the mayor's campaign treasury was 50 percent fatter than all six of his rivals' combined Nor can they be optimistic if they remember the 1975 race well. When The Globe was investigating the mayor's fundraising practices, and Timilty was attacking corruption at City Hall and White still held...
...that coming deficits would be much bigger than the Administration had yet admitted. More usual in the military's perennial game of hide-and-leak is the sudden declassification of scary intelligence about the Soviet Union at just those moments when the Pentagon is leaning on Congress for fatter appropriations. Nobody questions the need for military secrecy, but even military leaders realize that the hiding of information can be carried too far: post-mortems on the failed mission to rescue the American hostages in Iran showed the rescue team to have been handicapped because of security so tight that...