Article: What is your Qwest?(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

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Mergers come and mergers go, but the acquisition about a month ago of US West by Qwest has to rank right up there with the strangest of all time. It wasn't a marriage of giants. You have a mid-sized Baby Bell and a relative newcomer to the telecommunications arena coming together to form a 90-some billion-dollar entity that remains, by global standards, a lightweight. And I truly believe that Qwest, by all accounts and track history a well-run and well-managed firm, got more liabilities than assets by absorbing US West.

I can't help thinking of great lines from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

"What is ...

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