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...next year. Says Analyst Mark Luftig of Salomon Bros.: "A T & T's most immediate problem is two words: access charges." Those fees, ranging from $2 for individuals to $6 for small-business users with only one line, would have given $3.5 billion to local phone companies to offset the loss of subsidies from long-distance tolls that they had received from AT&T before the breakup...
...Willie Keeler in 44 games over six seasons at the turn of the century. Manager Tony La Russa's idea is to excuse regular Third Baseman Vance Law from facing the ace righthanders and hope the lefthanded bat of former Gold Glove First Baseman Mike Squires is not offset by a nightmare of swinging bunts. "There is a no man's land halfway between the mound and third," Squires admits, "but how many people can bunt the ball consistently? Our pitchers will have to help...
...writer: "Let's face it, they are running the trial because of its sexy nature. I do not think any of us is so naive as to believe that ratings are not a factor. And ratings are up." CNN executives counter that the ratings boost may be offset by the costs of live coverage. Still, the network's formula is working: Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner announced last week that his empire had made a profit last year for the first time since he launched...
Those initiatives, however, were not enough to offset voters' growing weariness. In January a Gallup poll found that only 32% of the electorate favored the Liberals, with 52% for Mulroney's Conservatives. After Trudeau's resignation was announced, the Toronto stock market rocketed 16 points. In Washington, where differences of style and ideology with Trudeau have grown pronounced under Ronald Reagan, there were also sighs of relief...
...film centers around a holiday vacation, in which two middle-aged friends. Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) escape to Rio to offset their mid-life crises with some warn weather adventure. When the movie opens, Victor is already in the midst of a divorce, while Matthew receives a rude awakening when packing with his wife Karen, (Valerie Harper) for Rio. Karen informs Matthew that he cannot put his snorkeling equipment in her suitcase because she has decided to go to Club Med to think their marriage over...