Word: netted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...writing to explain my position regarding the recent vote to permit New England Telephone (NET) to charge residential customers 35 cents for dialing 411 (directory assistance) in excess of 10 per month...
...puts an unfair burden on residential telephone customers of low and moderate income. The fact is that New England Telephone is a successful and profitable corporation which has made large profits in recent years and has been unable to justify a general rate increase. The new law allowing NET to charge for 411 is an under-the-table rate increase which, I believe, should not be separate from all other proposed rate increases, thereby pending review by the Department of Public Utilities...
...live in them, and 20% of adult Britons own stock shares, up from just 7% in 1979. There is a price for this, of course, and Britain pays it in the form of inflation, currently at 10.9%; unemployment, at 6% and rising; and disrepair in the social-safety net that Labour had so carefully woven. Roads and railways are showing signs of neglect, homelessness has visibly increased, and Thatcher's critics charge that her kind of individualism implies greed and selfishness...
...tends to feed the downward spiral and make any economic falloff even deeper. But there is another, more profound kind of recessionary psychology. It is measured by psychic indicators rather than economic ones. As people change their behavior in the face of layoffs, cutbacks or a sudden drop in net worth, more and more Americans find themselves clinically depressed...
Brokers then cast a wide net. They might draw on Census Bureau data, which are available to the public, to identify geographical areas where homes fall into the targeted price range. They can tap into lists from major compilers, like Donnelley Marketing of Stamford, Conn., whose data base details the buying habits of 80 million households, or into various computerized systems that identify neighborhoods by consumer behavior. They might pay credit agencies like TRW of Cleveland and Equifax Inc. of Atlanta to draw up sophisticated demographic models, consumer profiles and potential customer lists. A thorough computer sorting of all these...