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Hi, I'm Charlie Brown: AT&T Chairman Charles Lee Brown

The decision was the most difficult Charles Lee Brown had ever confronted during a 37-year career with the telephone company. Yet on the night the AT&T chairman made up his mind not to fight the Justice Department's plan to break up the Bell System, he squelched all second thoughts and slept soundly. "If I worried after a decision," he says, "I'd be a basket case, and I don't do that." Armed with such self-assurance, Brown, 62, has for nearly two years calmly dealt with criticism, fears and confusion among customers, employees, share holders...

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