Unseen, though, was another opponent: Prefontaine, whose presence decades after his death on May 30, 1975, at the age of 24, has loomed large over long distance running in the United States.
Designing them to light up an entire room or shine a beam over a long distance is far more technically challenging and requires higher production costs.
Deregulation has led to a huge increase in competition: there are now over 500 long-distance carriers in America.
Bush and Gore have not yet agreed when and where to formally debate this fall, and the long-distance debate over the debates extended into Monday's events.
In June he stopped investing in new companies and took on the job of "acting" chief executive of Dialpad.com, which provides free local and long-distance services over the Web.
It was Mr Sullivan, for example, who had the idea of taking over MCI, a much bigger long-distance operator, in 1997.
Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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But the real winner in this battle may be Carlos Slim Helu Carlos Slim Helu , the Mexican telecommunications magnate who managed to turn his stake in a struggling long-distance company into over a billion dollars.
Deregulation has cut the price of long-distance calls in Japan by 75% over the past decade, allowing telemarketing agencies to expand the area covered by each call-centre.
Increasing numbers of consumers are abandoning their home phone lines and communicating primarily over cellular networks, unwilling to submit to your high prices and paying extra for long distance.
Fly-half Davis put over the simple conversion to make it 7-3 but then missed with a long-distance penalty attempt.
He likened Twitter discussions to trying to have a long-distance conversation at a crowded football game from one section to another while shouting over everyone else's conversations.
Within its network, this company could lead the way toward a new hybrid of commerce: not cash over the counter and not the "have faith" terms that attend to so many Internet and other long distance transactions.
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