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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 9, 1993                   TAG: 9302090352
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

AT&T to raise rates on many of its calls

WASHINGTON - American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said Monday it will raise rates Feb. 19 on weekday, international, operator-assisted, calling-card and coin calls.

Direct-dialed, state-to-state weekday calls between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. will increase 1.2 percent. That's about 2 cents a month on the average AT&T consumer long-distance bill, the company said.

People who use an AT&T operator to place long-distance calls within the United States will incur a $1.94 service charge, 6 cents higher than the current fee. The rates for operator-handled, calling-card and coin calls will rise a maximum of 2 cents a minute. Rates on 10-minute international calls to 32 countries and areas will rise an average 6 percent.

- Associated Press

Westinghouse sued over age bias layoffs

A group of about 100 former Westinghouse employees who accused the company of intentionally picking older workers for layoffs from its plants in Maryland has won an age-discrimination ruling from a federal agency and filed a lawsuit against the defense contractor.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Westinghouse had terminated workers on the basis of age when it laid off about 600 people from its facilities in Hunt Valley and at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in February 1991.

The commission's Baltimore office found that two-thirds of those laid off were more than 40 and those left behind generally were younger.

Westinghouse has denied that the layoffs were based on age and declined to comment on the lawsuit.

- Washington Post

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