Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...brass tried to keep things upbeat at last week's press conference--called to announce that one of America's oldest and most revered institutions was splitting into four companies. AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong told a roomful of reporters that his own aunt could still sleep easily putting her money in Ma Bell and living off the dividends. Lower-level Bellheads even joked about the career opportunities the split would create. "You always wanted to run your own company," one quipped to another. "Now you're going to get the chance...
...stock without facing fundamental problems. "When you have a company under pretty severe attack from the outside and you exacerbate that with a disorienting reorganization, I don't get very optimistic," says Anna-Maria Kovacs, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott. She downgraded the stock even before the press conference...
...madam Heidi Fleiss's most infamous customers. "I saw it as an opportunity to get back into the fold," says Sheen. It took eight script drafts to introduce deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, a party boy we first see waking up in bed with a flight attendant, late for a press conference. (In an early scenario, there was a blackout, and when the lights came back on, Sheen was in Fox's place.) The result is a one-joke character, and a predictable one at that. (How predictable? The flight attendant is Swedish...
Exchanging pictures was a little trickier. While the controls were clear--you just press a MENU button on top of the frame to select which images to send--Antje noticed that you could transmit only about 10 images at a time, and even that tied up the phone line for as long as 20 minutes. I was disappointed that my digital pictures didn't fill the screen completely--a thin black bar appeared at the top and bottom--but Antje said she didn't mind...
...asked how his tax plan would affect her: "You get a plan that will include prescription drugs...You're going to live in a peaceful world...It's less likely that you'll be harmed in your neighborhood"? Is it for thinking like this that Bush has received a press pass to the election...