EXHIBIT 10dd(i)


Termination of NYNEX Mid-Career Pension Program, effective December 31, 1997,
with respect to active participants.

Effective December 31, 1997, the Human Resources Committee ("HRC") of the Board
of Directors of Bell Atlantic terminated benefit accruals for active
participants under the NYNEX Mid-Career Pension Program (the "Plan"), and
authorized the Executive Vice President -- Human Resources of Bell Atlantic, as
plan administrator, to credit such accrued benefits of active participants on
that date to the respective individual deferred compensation accounts for those
individuals under the newly adopted Bell Atlantic Senior Management Income
Deferral Plan. Thereafter, the Plan will be administered solely for the benefit
of inactive participants who retired or otherwise separated from service on or
before December 31, 1997.