Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.wpost From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: POST NO BULLS< Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 05:02:45 EST Message-ID: <82.1992Nov16.050246@AmeriCast.com> POST NO BULLS< Magazine publisher Bill Regardie, who has a knack for turning heads, stood out in the crowd of tuxedoed business types and former boxing champs gathered last week at the Washington Hilton for Fight Night '92. Regardie showed up for the charity boxing spectacle wearing a red Everlast boxing robe with the moniker "Raging Bill" emblazoned on the back. One elderly gentleman took a long look at Regardie's regalia and accosted him with mock seriousness. "I'm going to sue you," the gentleman said. He was none other than Jake LaMotta, the "Raging Bull" himself.BY GEORGE, SHEER POETRY< It's not often you find poetry, or even readable prose, in the business of proposing federal rules and regulations. Bell Atlantic Corp. took a stab at it, however, last week when it filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission that were out of the mouth of George Gilder, free-market futurist and author. After all, the agency probably didn't receive many comments on how to structure the nascent personal communications services in- dustry that began: "As particles race toward the speed of light, they shed the invisible rainbows of the electromagnetic spectrum. In the 1990s, all world business is bursting into these rainbow realms, collapsing time and space and vibrating forth into new wavescapes of information." Rainbow realms? Wavescapes of information? Hardly the jargon of the telecommunications industry, which re- lies on acronyms such as LECs, IXCs and CIID - shorthand for lo- cal exchange carriers, interexchange carriers and card issuer identifier. For its part, Bell Atlantic told the FCC Gilder's vision was one it shared. Then the company got back to business and spent the next 100 pages discussing the merits of radio spectrum alloca- tion, licensing mechanisms and technical standards. Oh well, it was good reading while it lasted.END NOTESTHAT DISCONNECTED FEELING< Speaking of telephone companies: They've traditionally been known for overstaffing; some would call it bloat. Increasingly, however, many of the Baby Bells are cutting like mad to meet the demands of a competitive world where others are nibbling at their business. At Bell Atlantic's offices in Arlington, for example, the public relations staff at this time last year numbered 15. In a few days, it will be four. Those who go will either take other jobs within Bell Atlantic, take the company up on a buyout offer, or simply leave. "It isn't going to be the same kind of service," said Ken Pitt, executive director for media relations. Much to their chagrin, the people in public relations aren't alone. Bell Atlantic's goal for the year is to trim 4,400 jobs. Guess the idea of lifetime employment with the phone company is going the way of the dime call.END NOTESTHEY WEREN'T COUNTRYand Robert J. McCartney>03:19 11-16C9999--- -- Copyright 1992, The Washington Post. This story is from the Washington Post's Capitol Edition On-Line and is not to be ar- chived or redistributed. For more information, send-email to American Cybercasting Cor- poration (usa@AmeriCast.COM)