Word: cellularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago with the killing of Jonny Gammage, a cousin of Ray Seals, then star defensive end of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Gammage, 31, was driving Seals' Jaguar through a mostly white suburban neighborhood when he was stopped by police, ostensibly for driving erratically. After an officer knocked a cellular phone from Gammage's hand--he later claimed he thought it was a gun--officers pinned Gammage face down on the pavement. He later died of suffocation. Only three of the five suburban officers present went to trial. One was acquitted of involuntary homicide by an all-white jury. The case...
Ordinarily pretty harmless stuff, homocysteine is used by the body to help manufacture proteins and carry out cellular metabolism. Too much of it, however, appears to cause blood platelets to clump together and vascular walls to begin to break down. In older patients, a lifetime of this damage may give arteries the scarred and thickened texture that provides circulating cholesterol with a place to stick and grow. In the young boy, accelerated homocysteine production caused by a genetic defect apparently led to accelerated damage. In both instances, however, McCully points to the same chemical culprit. "The underlying cause of heart...
...humorous touches, as when Ford creeps past baggage and broken glass from refrigerators filled with enough milk, orange juice and cases of Bud to quench the thirst of all Kazakhstan; and when, after fumbling through the pages of a cellular phone user's pamphlet, he finds himself dealing with a skeptical White House phone operator who responds, "Yeah. And I'm the First Lady." Equally amusing is a parachute scene in which a secretary who provides key assistance to Marshall descends, smiling, into the safety of...central Asia...
...Robert Allen, whose tortured leadership of Ma Bell ignited the search for a successor. His nine-year tenure has been marked by some seemingly desperate attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
That gives GTE a head start in the race to sell customers a bundle of branded services that would include not only local and long-distance calling but also cellular and Internet access, all payable on a single bill. "Speed is critical here," says Rob McCoy, GTE's president for long-distance services, and GTE intends "to run very hard and very fast through this open window...