Word: fax
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...visitors. But as a Rolodex, it is one with attitude. Many of the system's 355,000 names were culled from Democratic National Committee donor lists, and they were obviously entered with follow-up in mind. Have a pet project or nickname? WhoDB knows it, along with birthdays and fax numbers. Even special dietary needs were logged in to cater to donors at future events. "If people who give money are treated with social graces and made to feel they're appreciated, they'll come right back and give the next time," said Truman Arnold, a Texas oilman who served...
...idea of a special ZIP code was George Bush's, but Clinton adopted it shortly after he was elected and soon added a fax number as well. Clinton has given it out to strangers when he wants to hear their stories in full. But most often it's a way for people like Staley to bypass regular channels, which once left her in tears after she'd poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello...
PHOENIX: Banned for life from competing on the U.S. national team, Tonya Harding has set on a quest to find a new country -- any country -- that will let her skate for them in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Harding's representative, David Hans Schmidt, has faxed a number of foreign media outlets expressing her interest in joining their national teams. One fax, pitching the "friendly Norwegians," made a case for Harding that touched on her genetics as well as her skating ability. "After all, Tonya (with her blonde hair) looks like you people," it said. Schmidt said Sweden...
...will be a legacy war room," jokes a senior official who can't resist sending up the Permanent Campaigner's assault on history. "We'll bring in [presidential scholar] Michael Beschloss to spin the historians. If any of them has a question, [National Economic Council chief] Gene Sperling will fax him an answer. [Senior adviser] Rahm Emanuel has checked out every biography of a two-term President--and we're going to be bad-mouthing all of them. With the money left over from the '96 campaign, we'll run ads wherever there's a presidential library...
...also neurotic and stressed out. People are working longer hours than they did a few decades ago. New technologies have only created tighter and more unreasonable deadlines. The report that might have spent a day or two traveling by mail is now expected to arrive that afternoon by fax...