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Participants at this year's National Marketing Conference in Nashville, Tenn., explored the impact and promise of new technology and discussed ways CWA can best handle such industry practices as sales incentives, bundling and more.

Unless some serious downturn occurs soon, the last year of the 20th Century will go down in record books as the best economic year in America's history. Record stock market gains made a few people very rich; the lowest unemployment rate in 25 years gave evidence that America was back at work.

Members of CWA Locals 4400 and 4401 have overwhelmingly approved a new agreement covering 2,000 Cincinnati Bell employees which will provide nearly 12 percent in wage increases and provide substantial hikes in pension benefits over the next 30 months.

Qwest Communications is upping its bid for U S West and Frontier Communications, but CWA is working to make certain that communities, consumers and shareholders recognize that the takeover would undermine phone service, slash jobs and hurt shareholder investment.

Contracts covering 5,000 Sprint Corp. workers expire this year and, so far, it's been tough bargaining for members of CWA Local 3672 in Hickory and Madison, N.C.