Word: telegraph
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...only $194 million. Japan made some moves last week that could help close that gap. The government announced that it would consider an application from Hughes Aircraft to sell communications satellites to Japan in a joint venture with two Japanese companies. The deal could be worth $400 million. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, which is now being converted from a government monopoly to a private company, signed a new contract to buy 10,000 telephones from ITT. Nonetheless, many American telecommunications executives considered these gestures to be mere tokens. Whenever Japan unveils a program to boost imports, many foreign businessmen...
Gillette the play, however, is injured by Hauptman's desire to explore fully Gillette the non-existent metaphor The springs and wires of Hauptman's plot are so obvious that the set deserves some telegraph lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete...
While Harvard students have been involved with divestiture from South Africa in recent weeks by April 20 they will have so deal with a divestiture clear to home that of American Telephone and Telegraph from its regional divisions...
...result of a federal antitrust action in 1982, the monopoly American Telephone & Telegraph Co. enjoys over long distance service is being replaced by a policy the Federal Communications Commission calls "Equal Access." Under this policy, all long distance firms (MCI and Sprint are among the better known) will have access to the same equipment and services from independent local telephone operating companies (like New England Telephone). The consumer, in turn, will be able to choose which firm will carry his call after he picks up the receiver and dials "I". The policy is gradually being implemented across the country, until...
Lawmakers are particularly eager to pry open Japan's $20 billion telecommunications market. In the past two months, Administration officials have stepped up negotiations with Tokyo to win greater access to that market. The talks have been in anticipation of the gradual conversion of giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone from a government monopoly to a private company, a change that begins this week. So far, though, Washington's representatives have been frustrated by what they consider to be Japanese reluctance to grant freer trade, and have made no more than modest progress. Said one top negotiator: "Substantial differences remain...