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To: Tim McCormick who wrote (29386)4/26/2000 2:34:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42523
 
I just hung-up the phone with my friend. Things are a bit looney at ma bell!

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April 26, 2000


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As AT&T Wireless Unit Sets IPO,
Employees Scramble to Cash In
By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

BAYONNE, N.J. -- Paul Winters sits staring at the stock quotes marching across his 60-inch television screen, exhausted after working the midnight to 8 a.m. shift at AT&T Corp.'s data network operations. In his right hand, held tenderly between thumb and forefinger, is the biggest check he has ever seen in his life: $42,600 from a loan on his retirement account. He's about to risk all of that -- and more.