Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pusey said he thought the only way out was to call the police and he asked if there were any objections," Epps says. "No one objected...
...WebTV component, however, isn't really for me; I don't like surfing the Net when I'm in my passive, TV-watching mode. And call me a traditionalist, but I think e-mail belongs on a PC in the office, not on the big screen in the living room. By law I still can't get local programming on the satellite dish, although Congress is expected to overturn that ban, possibly at the end of June. What I will never get via satellite is my neighbor's vibra-chair...
...faxed it to several magazines, including Newsweek's Marc Peyser, who writes the Newsmakers page. Peyser didn't call. The only one to respond was Michele Orecklin, the writer of TIME's People page, who sits two doors down from me. But she just wanted to know if I wanted to get lunch after she talked to Christie Brinkley's and Joan Jett's publicists about their trip to the Balkans...
...fashionable now to dismiss Tiananmen as a reckless, nihilist uprising. In that view, the crackdown was an unpleasant necessity to keep China from spinning into chaos. But that slant requires a selective recall. The movement was initially a peaceful call for reform. But Deng Xiaoping didn't get that. Soon after the demonstrations began, he ordered the People's Daily to tar the movement as "a planned conspiracy" and "a riot," transforming China's idealistic young into enemies of the state. With that error, Deng lost the ability to compromise...
Important as preparation and presentation are, experts agree that the ultimate flavor enhancer may be a friendly atmosphere. Senior executive chef Martin Leonard makes a point of chatting with Classic residents. And that, he says, "can make all the difference in whether they like their beef or not." Call it the spice of life...