Word: third
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...distance business--which still accounts for as much as 65% of AT&T's more than $62 billion in revenue. Ma Bell, which had been charging 15[cents] a minute for calls, suddenly found itself competing with rates as low as 4[cents] a minute. In this year's third quarter, AT&T's profits fell 19.4% from a year ago, to $1.3 billion...
...call cheerleading a sport, and all-star teams--strictly competitive groups run by local gyms--are exploding in popularity. Some 40 groups organize regional and national competitions, most of them between December and April. "Competitive cheer" has become the fastest-growing high school sport for girls; about a third of U.S. high schools have competitive teams, sometimes in addition to more traditional spirit squads. Nearly 200 colleges offer cheerleading scholarships...
Although perhaps racy for someone called Missy, those sins sound tame compared with recent reports that nearly one-third of teens have sex by age 15, and that the second leading cause of death among 15- to 19-year-olds is being murdered with...
...trying desperately to avoid that end, one by boundlessly buying new businesses and the other by ripping itself apart. These are choices that companies face all the time, by the way, and they are critical to stock-market performance. One company is AT&T, which last week announced its third breakup in 17 years. The other is GE, which unveiled its umpteenth and largest acquisition--$45 billion for defense contractor Honeywell...
Growing up as a woman of African descent in Ireland, Mumba says, "I never felt different. There's been a little twang of racism recently, because all of a sudden a lot of [Third World] refugees have come to Dublin, and it has been very hard for Ireland to adjust. But people are getting used to it now." Mumba's own adjustment, from relative unknown to international pop star, should be no problem...