It's been going fairly smoothly this morning.

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I'm not sure this was the intent of the Telecommunications Act [of 1996], ... The intent was not to rebuild the Bell system. With this merger you would have SBC or Ameritech west of the Mississippi, and Bell Atlantic, assuming it makes a deal with BellSouth, on the Eastern seaboard. I don't know that is good for the American public at large.

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The malaise of the past few years is finally beginning to dissipate, and while we see an industry-wide return to historic levels of growth, we anticipate that growth will be uneven across various geographic regions and product types.

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Maybe it would have been a murder conviction instead of a capital murder conviction if this had been disclosed.

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Being a phone company has been a nightmare over the past few years.

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Bell Atlantic is probably right now going through its Rolodex of as many BellSouth contacts as it has to start the dance, ... It's inevitable.

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