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...that the company's earnings will be reduced by the $5.2 billion amount. Explaining the decision to apply the full write-down in a single stroke, Brown said: "It is generally considered more comfortable to take a dog's tail off all at once, rather than an inch at a time." Profits have been lackluster anyway. In the year's third quarter, AT&T profits fell 28%, to $1.46 billion, continuing a long decline. One reason was the anticipated costs of divestiture. Another, said Brown was the "lingering effect of recession" on revenues from telecommunications...
...would like to keep some element of suspense until then. "It is perfectly appropriate that he have a little wiggle room," says Laxalt. But Laxalt, who will be the campaign chairman, is not expecting a change of heart. "In football terms," he says, "this candidacy is on the six-inch line." Says a senior aide: "The announcement will be just a media event...
...prospective National Security Adviser, she had obvious drawbacks. In dealings with colleagues as well as adversaries, Kirkpatrick tends to be everything McFarlane is not: high-strung, argumentative, ideological, organizationally disheveled, and candid to a fault. At White House meetings, says one Reagan aide, "she doesn't give an inch. When she really gets going, she throws down her glasses on the table." Reagan's advisers surely knew that if she were picked, Kirkpatrick could be expected to exacerbate rather than mediate Administration turf and ideological disputes. Her hard-line views, held with sometimes evangelical fervor, can be bracing...
...they are going to get me to leave is in a pine box." Last week police officials and local politicians took note of the battle and descended on the Hawkins home to pledge their support. Declared Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "We don't intend to turn one inch of this city over to hoodlums. You are not alone. We are with...
...adds, "I can still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season, a burst of Morgan's old self in the closing month filled his ego to at least an inch above the brim. "I'm the best 5-ft. 8-in. baseball player in history," he says. "You ain't five-eight," says Rose...