Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Increasing numbers of wandering youth begin to stay in the area around Harvard Square, and in the wake of spring rioting, stores board up their windows and begin to call for an increased police presence...
Within a month, President Bok and Dean of theLaw School Albert M. Sacks write to the U.S.Attorney General, asking him to call off the FBIprobe...
...fact, most talking to oneself involves a low order of business--pettiness, self-justification, improvised rants or what the French call l'esprit d'escalier, the things that you should have said a moment ago, lines you think of while coming down the stairs. (The British call it "taxi wit," which may prove that the French think faster than the Brits.) This debased muttering is directed at salesclerks, ticket-writing cops and even would-be muggers: "You know, son, when I was in Nam .." Talking to oneself is inherently a private act, not meant to be shared, and as such...
...first glance Fireteam from Multitude looks like any other online shoot-'em-up, its Internet site a meeting place for any gaming geek with a modem. But a headset with a microphone adds a new twist. Real-time voice communication over the Net lets teammates talk--plan attacks, call for back-up--while their hands are free...
...circling the legal wagons around the man who almost certainly knows all there is to know -- Bruce Lindsey. The White House says Lindsey is Clinton's lawyer first and a government employee second; Starr would have it the other way around. The Supreme Court will make the call...