Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something. If you keep your wits and don't get carried away, you can do well," observed Robert Delaney, an antiques dealer, on his way to pick up a bronze sculpture by Denver artist Edgar Britton, for which he successfully bid $1,700. Art dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That was $2,000 under the estimate by Christie's, which conducted the auction and took a 15% commission off the gross...
...core business: long-distance phone service, the recently acquired McCaw Cellular phone subsidiary, and credit cards. Name: still AT&T. Revenues: $49 billion a year, based on 1994 figures. Profits: more than three-quarters of the $4.7 billion AT&T earned last year. Chief executive: Allen. (He has named Alex Mandl, his heir apparent, to oversee the transition to the slimmed-down AT&T.) Employees...
...technology is enabling Ma Bell to muscle back into the local markets turned over to the Baby Bells by the 1984 court-ordered divestiture. It can do this now by offering cellular-phone service and later by setting up networks of PCS (personal-communication services) phones. These are new wireless, portable phones. AT&T might also link up with cable-TV companies to route phone calls over TV cables...
...innocent,'" McKenna recalls. "'Please don't hang up on me. I understand that you have some tapes, and I am begging you to let me hear them.' She said she would have to call her lawyer. I gave her all my phone numbers, my home, my office, my cellular, my dog's phone number. And her lawyer called me about a half-hour later." McKenna says McKinny did not want to come forward with the tapes, but they continued to negotiate until the defense subpoenaed the tapes...
...human mind--our emotions, our wants, our needs--evolved in an environment lacking, for example, cellular phones. And, for that matter, regular phones, telegraphs and even hieroglyphs--and cars, railroads and chariots. This much is fairly obvious and, indeed, is a theme going back at least to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. But the analysis rarely gets past the obvious; when it does, it sometimes veers toward the dubious. Freud's ideas about the evolutionary history of our species are now considered--to put it charitably--dated. He hypothesized, for example, that our ancestors lived in a "primal horde...