Hernandez's lawyer said the once popular mayor, who ran a small grocery store in Bell, was unschooled and not one who understood the city's finances.

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When Bell workers invented a small electronic switch they were wondering what to call it.

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Chairman Michael Birck, a 60-year-old electrical engineer, cofounded Tellabs in 1975 after stints at Bell Labs and two small Chicago-area telecom equipment firms.

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Chairman Michael Birck, 60, an electrical engineer, cofounded Tellabs in 1975 after stints at Bell Labs and two small Chicago-area telecom equipment firms.

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But to get to that small number of companies in which he invests, Bell meets roughly 10 entrepreneurs a week or around 500 a year.

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Later, Mr McCourt began laying his own telephone cables, building small local networks for commercial customers that allowed them to bypass Bell Atlantic's Boston predecessor.

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Speaking before the Budget, Mr Bell said Mr Osborne must reduce overheads if he wanted small firms to grow.

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Just after Discovery's engines fired, launch controllers noticed a small rectangular object drop from the bottom of the ship, carom off an engine bell and vanish into the exhaust flames.

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