Word: faxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without conferring with the [faculty], I telephoned [Bell]. I immediately sent a fax to his office and a Federal Express letter," Wisconsin Law Dean Cliff F. Thompson '56 said of his actions when he heard Bell planned to forego teaching at Harvard next year...
...this would sound crazy to anyone who didn't know that it was largely true. As the world has accelerated to the fax and satellite speed of light, attention spans have shortened, and dimension has given way to speed. A whole new aesthetic -- the catchy, rapid-fire flash of images -- is being born. Advertising, the language of the quick cut and the zap, has quite literally set the pace, but Presidents, preachers, even teachers have not been slow to get the message. Thus ideas become slogans, and issues sound bites. Op-ed turns into photo op. Politics becomes telegenics...
...call to protest was deliberately low key. In fax messages Chinese dissidents abroad urged sympathizers on the mainland to honor the April 15 anniversary of the beginning of last year's prodemocracy upheaval by simply taking a stroll through Beijing's Tiananmen Square. But the country's security watchdogs were eavesdropping. Last week, at the suggested start of the modest commemoration, police seized the 100-acre square in the heart of the capital. As soldiers guarded the perimeter, thousands of schoolchildren performed a ceremony to honor the nation's revolutionary-war dead. When the security forces melted away and Tiananmen...
Broadway Supermarket plans to solicit business from fax-owners on campus because they a large potential for business...
Gillis, however, denied that Harvard affiliates are committing fax abuse in the city's deli departments...