Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provocative response. The excitement started immediately - and a clear leader emerged. Einstein? Gandhi? JFK? No, Mick Foley. The day after the poll launched, a robot attacked and cast thousands of votes for Foley, a professional wrestler. What is a robot, you ask? Robots, or "'bots," as we call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site and vote over and over on our polls. Why do we care about them? Because they ruin the fun for everybody. Heavy robot activity can radically alter the vote tally, slow down our web site and crash other polls unrelated...
...down to business. I immediately learn where these investment bankers spend their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets between 50 and 100 e-mails...
...management and investors. Shemmer sends them a curt e-mail telling them to shape up, then moves on. With practice, the culling goes quickly, Shemmer says. "There's a ton of shitty companies out there. It's like 80-20." Once he identifies a likely prospect, Shemmer places a call to the CEO for more information, then drafts a one-page summary of the company for his client, a time-consuming prospect. "It takes a while," he says. "You have to dissect a company in an hour so the buyer can figure out, 'Do we want this...
...conference room, and for half an hour the office feels like a dining hall. Cliques form in different corners--secretaries over here, a small group of partners towards the back, and two big tables of analysts and associates. The stock talk continues: "Did you see Zamba? Good call, man." A group gathers around Shemmer, who's animatedly describing the movie he saw last weekend...
...York woman's lawsuit alleges that following an emergency medical phone call, two cops forcibly entered her apartment and beat the occupants, including her mother, siblings and a neighbor; that they called her a slew of names; that they used Mace; that they trashed the apartment; that they tranquilized two dogs, one of which later had to be put down; and that they stole money...