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Once the Bells knew their baby was going to be a boy, Bill Bell decided to nickname his son "Bubba." He would take his father's name on his birth certificate, but he would be known as Bubba Bell . Because, Bill Sr. thought, it was a great baseball name.
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There's a dent in the number that sets it apart from its peers.
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It&#39;s catching is it not? Maybe it&#39;s bold, brave and brassy but it&#39;s apparently the new order. Defying the maths teacher who tells us three into two won&#39;t go.
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DALLAS, Dec. 11, 2004 -- There are silent nights - and days â-utside several stores this holiday season, but no more bells. Several stores have decided to ban Salvation Army&#39;s fund-raising bell-ringers.
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The Marlins and Mets traded three two-run home runs in the span of 1 1/2 innings on Monday, but it was Damion Easley&#39;s blast off of rookie Heath Bell that provided the decisive blow.
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BOSTON -- Because of a hiccup in its hardware unit, IBM Corp. stock took a hit even though the technology bellwether reported a 6 percent rise in earnings and exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Investors were also sorting out how much IBM is exposed to woes in the financial industry.
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Kenneth Massey is a numbers cruncher with some potentially good news for Auburn football fans. Don&#39;t read too much into Auburn&#39;s No.
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Hired by the old New York Telephone as a cable splicer's assistant 35 years ago, Ivan G. Seidenberg rose to chief executive of Verizon Communications Inc. in 2002. This onetime Baby Bell is now 10 times as big as former parent AT&amp;T Corp., which Verizon pushed out of the Dow Jones industrial average in April. Between phone, wireless, and Internet, ...
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The sound of bell ringers has always been heard at Target stores, but this year the bells have been silenced, and that silence is having tremendous effects.
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In his fourth NFL season, Kendrell Bell is reliving his sophomore jinx. The playmaking inside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers will miss at least the next two games with what is now being called a sports hernia.
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The world didn't end and most calls and messages got through, but the high volume of texting and cellphone calls resulted in a lot of bounce-backs. In a real crisis, this could mean real trouble.
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Wall Street is expected to plunge at the opening bell today, extending huge losses from last week. Indicators show the Dow will fall by about 500 points when trading begins, the sharpest drop at the open for U.S. stocks since the first session after the 9/11 attacks. World markets also are plunging as traders fear the United States is headed for a recession.
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By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 9--When Richard Notebaert ran Ameritech, the old Chicago-based Bell phone company, he spent millions of dollars building cable TV systems. But these days he's not sure that would make sense.
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Billy Wagner couldn't close it out. Trevor Hoffman couldn't, either. After two of baseball's best closers flopped again last night, Heath Bell had enough moxie to hang on for his first major league save.
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The once-certain merger process between the largest US telephone company, AT&T Inc., and former "baby Bell" and regional telephone carrier BellSouth, could perhaps be delayed further on account of a curious federal district judge. His hearings into why the AT&T/SBC and Verizon/MCI mergers were expedited by the Justice Dept. could raise skepticism about the viability of AT&T/BellSouth.
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Oakville, Ont. - The question is on everyone&#39;s lips. After a 50-year drought and on the tournament&#39;s 100th anniversary, could a Canadian finally be poised to win the Bell Canadian Open?
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A few thoughts on the earnings warning.