Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opposite page, an ad for an automatic Market Ability Real Call Message System that promises to send voters "messages [that] sound so real, they'll think you took the time to call them personally." Exclamation point...
...know who to vote for, and I certainly won't vote for someone who calls me (on the advice of a consultant) with a real-sounding "personal message" from his Market Ability Real Call Message System...
...have hit upon the reason why: this multi-trillion-dollar surplus, which materialized in the last year as if from thin air, is still just a promise -- a hunch, even -- by a bunch of Washington politicians. And it could disappear just as quickly. "Things are happening which we call technical factors, which is another way of saying we don't have a clue, and they could just as readily go in the other direction," the chairman said. "And, if you start to simulate a number of these things that could go wrong, those surpluses evaporate fairly rapidly...
...nudge Suharto out of power and to commit the country to elections. But Suharto?s handpicked heir, President B.J. Habibie, and his Golkar party potentially have sufficient support in the electoral assembly -- due to set-asides for the military and regional representatives -- to block Megawati?s accession. Despite her call for Suharto to be prosecuted for abuses of power, there?s unlikely to be an accord on her taking the presidency unless she gives some guarantee of immunity to the masters of the old order. So, Megawati?s public insistence on being given the presidency either reflects an emerging consensus...
VACCINE WARNING The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on doctors to stop giving a vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants--at least until its safety is confirmed. The vaccine may have caused a serious intestinal blockage in some 20 babies. To report problems, call...