Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Princess is the name of the (a) hottest London restaurant (b) newest Las Vegas hotel (c) high-tech cell phone (d) world's largest cruise ship...
...that CIA officers had apprehended Mir Amal Kasi, who had murdered two agency employees outside Langley. Tension was high as early casualty figures flowed in from Africa. Almost immediately, the CIA officers had a good idea who triggered the explosions at Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The bin Laden cell. The covert operation the year before apparently had not cleaned out that nest of terrorists...
...government's lead attorney in the Microsoft antitrust case, of trying to destroy his company, but one of the 20 states backing the suit--South Carolina--had also switched sides. As usual, Boies was almost the last to know; he learned about it when a reporter dialed his cell phone looking for a quote. "I find out a lot of what's going on in this case from journalists," jokes the veteran attorney...
Here's a thought: every dope in the world has got a cell phone. Give one to the ref, and have someone sitting in front of a TV call and overrule him when he blows it. Just do it on obvious blunders for now, and work out a better system in the off-season...
...hate it when someone at the next table in a restaurant thinks it's cool to yammer away on his cell phone? Well, there's a new book out to set him straight: Wireless Etiquette by Peter Laufer ($14.50 from Omnipoint, available at branden.com) Maybe you can copy a few appropriate pages for your briefcase and pass them out to offenders...