Definitions for Ma Bell
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1. Ma Bellnoun

   Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.

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1. ma bell

   The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundred years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983. The system of companies was often colloquially called Ma Bell (as in "Mother Bell"), as it held a vertical monopoly over telecommunication products and services in most areas of the United States and Canada. At the time of the breakup of the Bell System in the early 1980s, it had assets of $150 billion (equivalent to $390 billion in 2021) and employed over one million people. Ever since the 1910s, American antitrust regulators had been observing and accusing the Bell System of abusing its monopoly power, and had brought legal action multiple times over the decades, until in 1974 the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against Bell claiming violations of the Sherman Act. In 1982, anticipating that it could not win, AT&T agreed to a Justice Department-mandated consent decree that settled the lawsuit and ordered it to break itself up into seven "Regional Bell Operating Companies" (known as "The Baby Bells"). This ended the existence of the conglomerate in 1984. These Baby Bells became independent companies and several of them are today very large corporations in their own right.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ma Bell in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ma Bell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Ma Bell in a Sentence

1. Juan Orellana:

   For one thing you will hear the bell before the arms go down, so when you hear the bell you gotta get out of the way before the bridge goes up.

2. Stephen Curry:

   Obviously the bad is we're down 0-1 but it's not the end of the world, new experiences for us all the way through, but we have proven our resiliency and ability to win games that we need to, and kind of answer the bell and learn from nights like tonight.

3. Greg Lipper:

   This is a situation where you can't you know you can't unring the bell, obviously, so, if President Trump are at all sympathetic to Trump's claims President Trump will presumably enjoin the release.

4. Lawrence Young:

   To be honest, it's not particularly novel. What they have done, however, which is a bit interesting is introduce a new bell or a new whistle, if you like, in terms of the virus, which is to also have an effect on some of the supporting cells. So one of the things that's very exciting about current cancer biology is an increased understanding of the fact that while you've got cancer cells and tumor cells, which are important targets; actually there's a lot of supporting cells around the cancer that also get modified in that environment and start to mis-behave.

5. John Hawkins:

   It wasn’t a slow deal, when you see one of those develop that fast in heavy timber and already see another dozen fires in California running crazy, it doesn’t take much to light your lightbulb or ring your bell.

References

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