Sprint Canada

We also decided that it's important for us to market our history,which most people don't know about. So we market the fact thatthis is former CBS newsman, Walter Cronkite's, hometown. This isWalt Disney's hometown. This is the hometown of HallmarkGreeting Cards. Sprint, the telecommunications company, alsostarted here. We try to use the things that people would knowabout. ...

MAYOR CLEAVER: The answer is yes. Recently, I flewto New Jersey to make a presentation with our governor to acompany that has just purchased Hoechst Marion-Rouselle, a Germanpharmaceutical company.... They have a plant here and when themerger is complete, we want them to move to Kansas City. When wewent to New Jersey...we took a video with Don Hall, who is thechairman of the board of Hallmark Cards; Bill Esrey from Sprintand others. In essence, they said, "Our internationalheadquarters are located in Kansas City and we wouldn't move anyother place." So while it's not necessarily an organization, weclearly call on the corporate community to help when we aretrying to recruit new companies to town. ... [Read More]

USIS -- U.S. Society & Values, May 1996 --Paralympian

When Tony Volpentest runs the 100-meter sprint in just over 11seconds, he is so fast that you must wait till he stops to noticethat his feet are prosthetics and that he has no lower arms. Theexcitement of an impossible pass to a breaking teammate fromDutch basketball star Gert-Jan Van der Linden has nothing to dowith the wheelchair he uses. The Paralympic wheelchair recordsof America's Scot Hollonbeck in the 800 meters and Heinz Frei ofSwitzerland in the 5,000 meters are faster than their Olympiccounterparts, Sebastian Coe of Great Britain and Said Aouita ofMorocco. ... [Read More]

Documents 103-104

/b/DL is Damage Limiting. U.S. postures A and C include Nike-X deployments with Sprint defenses at 20 cities; postures B and D represent Sprint defenses at 47 cities. Other components of postures A and B are balanced against Soviet Threat Ia; C and D are balanced against Threat III. ...

1. A light anti-ballistic missile system using TACMAR radars, exo-atmospheric interceptors with large yield weapons, and a terminal Sprint defense at a small number of cities, offers promise of a highly effective defense against small ballistic missile attacks of the sort the Chinese Communists might be capable of launching within the next decade. Such a defense would have initial investment and five year operating costs (including R&D) of about $5 to $8 billion, depending on the number of cities defended by Sprint and the density of the area coverage. ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Byliner: Powell Says Sustainable Development is Compelling Issue for the United States

But in all of these areas, we can and must do more. We need governments, businesses and the organizations of civil society, individually and in partnerships, to work in support of these pressing human needs. That is why we established the Global Development Alliance to combine the assets of government, business and civil society to work in partnership on implementing sustainable development programs. Sustainable development is a marathon, not a sprint. It does not follow from a single event like the Johannesburg Summit, important as it is, but from a sustained global effort by many players over a long period of time. Sustainable development requires institutions, policies, people and effective partnerships to carry our common effort beyond Johannesburg and far into the future. ... [Read More]

USIA -- The United States Information Agency, Temas de la Democracia (in Spanish), "Gobierno Demócratico Local", Vol. 4, No. 1, Abril de 1999 -- EL MERCADEO DE LAS CIUDADES PARA EL DESARROLLO

Alcalde Cleaver: La respuesta es sí. Hace dos semanas viajé a Nueva Jersey para hacer una presentación con nuestro gobernador a una compañía que justo acaba de comprar Hoechst-Marion-Rousalle, una compañía farmacéutica alemana.... Tienen una planta aquí y queremos que cuando se complete la fusión se muden a Kansas City. Cuando fuimos a Nueva Jersey llevamos un video con Don Hall, el presidente del directorio de Hallmark Cards; Bill Esrey de Sprint y otros. Lo que dijeron en esencia es que "nuestra sede internacional está ubicada en Kansas City y no nos mudaríamos a ningún otro lugar". De manera que aunque no es necesariamente una organización, claramente acudimos a la comunidad empresarial para que nos ayuden cuando estamos tratando de reclutar nuevas compañías para que se muden a nuestra ciudad. ... [Read More]

USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: EIZENSTAT DECLARES CLIMATE CONFERENCE A SUCCESS

It's going to be a long process. It's a marathon, it's not a sprint. This is not going to happen over night. The developing world is not going to change over night in terms of some its attitudes. But, what happened at Buenos Aires is really light years beyond what one would have thought from Kyoto only a year ago. If that kind of pace can continue and accelerate, then we will really begin to see some major movement on the part of developing countries. I have already had countries who have come to me and indicated that they are interested in the Argentine model. ... [Read More]

Making Sustainable Development Work: Governance, Finance, and Public-Private Cooperation

Sustainable development, as you all know better than I, is a marathon, not a sprint. It does not follow from a single event like the Johannesburg Summit, important as that meeting may be, but from a sustained global effort by many players working together over a long period of time. Sustainable development requires institutions, policies, people and effective partnerships to carry our common effort beyond Johannesburg and well into the future. ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Local telephone service is fairly reliable. International direct dial (IDD) capability is available both from the Embassy and residences. Long distance calls to the U.S. are expensive, so many people use AT&T or Sprint calling cards which results in some saving on calls to the U.S. Approximate prices for long distance calls are as follows: $1.00 per minute — Italy, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., Great Britain, Vatican, Yugoslavia, Liechtenstein and San Marino; Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia; $1.26 per minute — Andorra, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus; $1.47 per minute  Ireland, Algier, Alaska, Belgium, Finland, Canada, Iceland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Malta. ... [Read More]

Outline of the U.S. Economy

     Telecommunications deregulation came in two sweeping stages. In 1984, a court effectively ended AT&T's telephone monopoly, forcing the giant to spin off its regional subsidiaries. AT&T continued to hold a substantial share of the long-distance telephone business, but vigorous competitors such as MCI Communications and Sprint Communications won some of the business, showing in the process that competition could bring lower prices and improved service. ... [Read More]

International Telecommunication Union 2002 Plenipotentiary Conference Report

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