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      "id": "IP0257A 1984-08-10",
      "date": "1984-08-10",
      "retrieved": "2006-08-10T14:50:24",
      "title": "AT and T Divestiture: Restructuring the U.S. Domestic Telephone Industry",
      "summary": "On January 8, 1982, the Justice Department and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced the settlement of the Government's seven year old antitrust suit against AT&T. Nineteen months later, in August 1983, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene gave final approval to the AT& T divestiture agreement. The breakup of AT&T will affect every aspect of the U.S. domestic telephone industry from the yellow pages to the manufacture of telephones. AT&T officially spun off its 22 local operating companies into seven regional phone companies on January 1, 1984. This Info Pack focuses on the Department of Justice settlement with AT&T and how the resulting divestiture will affect the U.S. domestic telephone industry.",
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          "id": "Business",
          "name": "Business"
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          "source": "LIV",
          "id": "Telephone",
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