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Article #620159Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: J. Clarke
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:36
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:36
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 14:56:49 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 8:55:53 AM UTC-7, jmfbahciv wrote: >> Remember the >> two long distance companies which almost went bankrupt (I can't recall >> their names). > >Was one of them Sprint? It's not (or wasn't at the time) Sprint, it's SPRINT--Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications. And I don't think it was in danger of bankruptcy in the '80s. > >John Savard
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