Word: faxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw money at the store bank; pick up their dry cleaning; and send a fax at the business center...
After perusing Toho's holy writ and digesting its meaning, Emmerich faxed the parameters of the studio's Godzilla-by-committee to Patrick Tatopoulos, creator of the aliens in Independence Day, the duo's biggest hit so far. As fate would have it, Tatopoulos never got the fax. Forging ahead anyway, he designed a monster that tampers with nearly every rule in The Book and is likely to leave fans of the old radioactive reptile either in awe or screaming "Heresy...
...channel the spirit of Pretenders' lead singer Chrissie Hynde: "You were the talk of the town," Manson sings in the track's closing moments, a reference to one of the Pretenders' hits. Indeed, Manson called Hynde up to ask her permission for the vocal homage. Says Manson: "A fax came through the machine saying, 'I, Chrissie Hynde, do solemnly swear that the rock band Garbage can sample my sound, my voice or indeed my very a__.'" When an established rocker is willing to give so generously to a new band, it's an indication of the group's promise...
...Internet nearly every day since September 1982. It's a great way to gather information, communicate and shop. And in one sense, the Internet is good for the American mind. Up through the early '90s, everyday written communication seemed to be dying out. Thanks to e-mail and fax machines, writing has come back. In this respect, the Internet could be a fine teaching tool--a way to share good, scarce writing teachers. One teacher could manage a whole district of students if they were all connected electronically...
...jammed their doctors' phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Investors scrambled to buy a piece of the action, turning the shares of a little company called EntreMed into the most volatile stock on Wall Street. Cancer scientists raced to the phones and fax lines to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines and perpetuating the second major medical media frenzy in as many weeks. It was Viagra all over again, without the jokes...