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		<title><![CDATA[Seidenberg, Ivan G. 1946&#x2013;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan G. Seidenberg 1946&#x2013; Chairman and chief executive officer, Verizon Nationality: American.Born: December 10, 1946, in New York City, New York.Education: City University of New York, BA, 1972; Pace University, MBA, 1980.Family: Son of Howard owner of an electrical supply shop and Kitty Zaretsky Seidenberg; married Phyllis A. Maisel; children:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could Trinko bring down the Bells? What began as an ordering mishap between Bell Atlantic and AT&T has turned into a Supreme Court case that could have significant implications for telecom regulation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until last month, only diehard antitrust experts knew much about Trinko vs. Bell Atlantic, an obscure antitrust case that had reached the 2nd Circuit Court in New York.  Back in March 2000, the former Bell Atlantic encountered problems with one of its operations support systems that accepted orders from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[After positions at five different companies, Mark Ziebarth is once again "planning for a new start". (Publisher Profile).]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armed with a newly minted college degree, the proudly conservative  and young Mark Ziebarth went to Washington, D.C. in 1982 for what became  a five-year stint in fundraising with the conservative Heritage  Foundation.    "It's the most creative form of selling," Zeibarth  said, "because,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federal appeals court says consumers can sue Baby Bells]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that consumers can sue the Baby Bells for antitrust violations. The court said, "The antitrust laws serve the purpose of affording the consumer compensation that the 1996 Telecommunications Act does not provide." In antitrust cases plaintiffs can receive triple damages. The ruling was a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FCC Denies AT&T 271 Complaint Against Defunct NYNEX]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's another example of just how much the telecommunications landscape  has changed in the last few years.  On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission released an order denying a 1997 complaint filed by AT&T [T] alleging that the former New York Telephone Company and New England Telephone and Telegraph...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact of Technological Change on Market Power and Market Failure in Telecommunications]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technological change is an historical constant--no era has lacked for it. But it cannot be denied that it waxes and wanes. Its pace has quickened recently, with dramatic impacts on telecommunications, broadening its very definition. No longer is it confined to voice sent over copper wire, but now also is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Executive Goes Long Distance in Verizon's New World.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Pian Chan, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    May 1--When Verizon Communications was born last year, it brought   together a venerable regional Bell company, Bell Atlantic, with GTE, a   non-Bell. GTE, which in the Northwest has played second fiddle...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[R.H. Donnelley Announces 10.8 Percent Growth in Third Quarter Earnings Per Share]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  PURCHASE, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 25, 2000  Company Meets EPS Expectations for the Quarter;  Expects to Meet Full Year EPS Target  R.H. Donnelley Corporation (NYSE:RHD), a leading marketer of yellow pages and other advertising and marketing services for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced diluted earnings...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AT&T Loses Big At D.C. Circuit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court Upholds Bell Atlantic N.Y. Long Distance  The FCC, which of late has been battered around by the U.S. Court of  Appeals for the D.C. Circuit like a cat in a dryer, won a major victory  yesterday. The court, firmly slapping down a challenge by AT&T [T]...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DSET and MetaSolv Solutions Cited in National Award for Allegiance Telecom]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  BRIDGEWATER, NJ & PLANO, TX--BUSINESS WIRE--July 17, 2000  (Nasdaq: DSET)-DSET Corporation's local-loop ordering gateway, ezLocal, and MetaSolv Software, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: MSLV) Telecom Business SolutionTM (TBSTM) order management and service fulfillment solution were cited as key elements in the operations support system OSS architecture that won the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[And then there were two &#8230;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With FCC approval given to the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, two operators now control close to 70% of the nation's phone lines. New entity Verizon will control 69 million fixed lines and 23 million wireless subscribers, and together with SBC, heralds a move to a two-company monopoly. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rainbow Beats Verizon On Programming]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In long-overdue action, FCC ruled in favor of Rainbow Media Holdings in video programming complaint filed against 2 units of Verizon formerly Bell Atlantic 3 years ago.  In order released July 6, FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief David Solomon held that Bell Atlantic-N.J. and Bell Atlantic Network Services divisions engaged...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Donnelley Implements Actions to Reshape Company]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  PURCHASE, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 6, 2000  Buy Out of Bell Atlantic Contracts Completed;  Actions Bring $125 Million After Tax Cash Inflow  R.H. Donnelley Corporation (NYSE:RHD) today reported that the company has implemented the major strategic actions it announced on April 27, 2000 and expects that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ALTS Cites Need for Enforcement Against Back-Sliding By SBC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers  WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 5, 2000  Approval of Petition for Texas Long Distance Shows that 271  Process Works, But SBC's Ability to Meet Key Market Opening  Requirements Remains Untested  The Association for Local Telecommunications Services ALTS today cautioned federal and state regulators to carefully...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SBC Joins Bell Atlantic In Long Distance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FCC on Friday approved Southwestern Bell's [SBC] application for  entry into long distance in Texas.  The news had been released the day before by Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) (CT 6/30), jumping the gun on the commission's usual announcement process.  "It is fitting that today, in honor...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bell Atlantic Completes Buy Out of Donnelley Contracts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_June_30/ai_63069387]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 30, 2000  R.H. Donnelley Corporation (NYSE:RHD) and Bell Atlantic Corporation today announced that Bell Atlantic has completed the buy out of Donnelley's New York sales agency contracts.  The transaction included the two sales agency contracts and related assets, and most of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FCC Clears Bell Atlantic OSS in New York]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_118_6/ai_62880968]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bell Atlantic [BEL] yesterday escaped the thumb of the FCC in New York, which it has been under since an AT&T [T] complaint about OSS performance in March.  AT&T's complaint followed Bell Atlantic's first-in-the-nation win into long distance in that state.  AT&T complained that Bell Atlantic was slow...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Behold The Verizon Behemoth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_115_6/ai_62833370]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC's expected approval of the merger of Bell Atlantic [BEL] and GTE [GTE] came through Friday, despite apparently increasing discomfort among commissioners over both the effects of ILEC mergers and the commission's process  for approving them.  The creation of the merged company, to be dubbed "Verizon," greatly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GTE, Bell Atlantic Alter Spin-off Plan to Gain FCC Approval for Merger.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200006/ai_n22467925]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Jun. 10--GTE Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. may be close to Federal  Communications Commission approval for a $79.5 billion merger, analysts  said, after revising a plan for spinning off GTE's Internet  division.    The companies filed a brief this week with the FCC regarding the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Complain, Complain, Complain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BMD/is_101_6/ai_62368107]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's summer -- the season when telco minds turn to complaining.  Yesterday saw a bumper crop of kvetching, with SBC [SBC] filing a  complaint against Time Warner Cable [TWX] and Road Runner over DSL in Texas and  AT&T [T] criticizing Bell Atlantic's [BEL] marketing practices in New...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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