Word: butlerism
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...would be dismissed. Those who stayed would join Uday in his bedroom at the club and leave with a gift of 250,000 dinars ($125), gold jewelry or sheer lingerie. "He never slept with a girl more than three times," says a former butler. "He was very picky." Uday took two days a week off from girls. He called it "fasting," his close associates...
...networks, as well as cable outlets like ESPN and Fox Sports Net, already have dibs on big-conference basketball and football. So CSTV, which went on air in April, will field a second-string lineup of college sports, including basketball and football from conferences such as the Horizon League (Butler, Detroit Mercy, Youngstown State), plus track, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball and--yes--squash. CSTV joins several niche sports networks--the Tennis Channel, the Ice Channel, Black Belt TV--in launch mode this year. But many analysts vote CSTV most likely to succeed. "College sports fans are rabid, and CSTV holds...
Consumers are buying gadgets with names like Phone Butler and TeleZapper to help keep unwanted salespeople at bay. But the callers keep developing new technologies to defeat the gadgets. Federal and state legislators are passing laws to tighten regulation of telemarketers. President Bush recently signed a bill authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a national do-not-call registry, which anyone can sign up for online beginning July 1 and by phone soon thereafter. Eventually the list will be merged with similar lists maintained by 30 states--a chore that may take up to two years. Companies must...
...phone companies face growing competition, though, from products like the $30 Phone Butler, sold by Morgan-Francis Inc., based in Fort Myers, Fla., which performs a function similar to that of the Privacy Manager. A more aggressive approach is touted by Privacy Technologies, based in Glenwillow, Ohio, which developed the TeleZapper. A small black box that connects to any phone, the $40 TeleZapper greets each incoming call with shrill tones that resemble the sound of a disconnected phone. When automatic dialers detect this sound, they often interpret it to mean the number is disconnected and hang up. A downside...
With a large letter “H” on his right biceps intertwined with ivy and the word “veritas,” Benny R. Butler ’04 says that his tattoo “symbolizes brotherhood with football and camaraderie with the team.” Reginald R. Lee ’03, who sports a block letter H colored in black and red on his shoulder blade agrees: the tattoo gave him a “larger connection with my [wrestling] teammates and the university.” Frederick E. Dewey...