Word: fax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a Velcro personality, attaching country ways at home, then peeling them away in the fund-raising parlors of Norman Lear and Pamela Harriman. He makes $35,000 a year (supplemented by his wife's salary as a lawyer). He helps his daughter Chelsea, 11, with algebra by fax from the road. He is passionate about crossword puzzles, and golfs and vacations every year with a group of close friends in South Carolina. He has been wearing off-the-rack clothes since the word got out that one of his suits cost...
...hardest adjustment is "getting used to freedom, deciding what I'll do next." Anderson admits, "I've forgotten what it's like to have appointments, to have to be organized." History has flashed along at astonishing speed in their absence, and they must catch up. Sutherland already has a fax machine, which he must learn to operate. Both Turner and Anderson have daughters, born during their captivity, whom they must get to know. "I have a whole new life," Anderson says. "It's going to be happy, I'm going to enjoy it, God willing...
This eleventh-hour rearguard action was launched by C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel, who had opposed the bill from the start. Between 4 and 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Gray instructed his staff to fax to federal departments an order that, in Bush's name, "terminated" all government programs that give preference to racial minorities and women in hiring, promotion, federal contracting, college admissions and scholarships. Gray's view that the new law should be blind to color and sex is popular not only with conservatives but also with a majority of voters. Yet his position flatly contradicted...
Everyone, including Shamir, knows that the PLO will pull the Palestinian strings. Madrid just happens to host Europe's largest PLO offices. A special liaison has been established to keep the fax lines humming between the official negotiators and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. But Israel has opted to pretend to believe the charade of PLO noninvolvement. That way, talks can have their chance. Whether or not Israel's refusal to deal with the PLO is reasonable, Palestianian negotiators who openly attempt to bury that charade jeopardize the chance for real talks...
Friends debating long distance, citizens swamping the lines to Capitol Hill, and lobbyists sending everything by fax meant big profits for the Bell clan...