Word: faxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Working at home for me has been wonderful," says Comes, who has now been with the high-tech company for 18 years. "I know my mom is O.K., and this allows me to focus on doing my job better." Armed with a laptop PC, an all-in-one fax machine and printers, e-mail, conference-calling capacity and other gear, Comes is able to keep in touch with her colleagues and perform her job of developing and analyzing software from her home. It helps that she works for a computer company--her Hewlett-Packard equipment can be updated regularly with...
Investigators were stumped until midweek, when something called the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility. A fax purporting to be from the ELF said the group had sponsored what was probably history's costliest ecoterrorist strike "on behalf of the lynx," a spike-eared wildcat all but gone from the state. It went on, "This action is just a warning...For your safety and convenience, we strongly advise skiers to choose other destinations...
...wonder that I might be inclined to grumble more than I ordinarily might about small charges. My irritation at being asked at the Bellagio's business center how I wished to pay for an incoming fax was based partly, I'll admit, on the fact that I had no idea where the fax came from. (It was in a sealed envelope.) Was I about to pay for gloriously good news from my agent or for another screed from that persistent gentleman who is always writing to accuse me of showing insufficient respect to the Speaker of the House...
...create step-down living rooms in each suite, to impart the feeling of luxury. "Las Vegas' yesterday thinking was casino-centric. The idea was to deprive guests of creature comforts to keep them in casinos," he says--no minibars, no snacks in the room, no safe-deposit boxes, no fax machines and certainly no computer hookups. Says he: "If you were hungry, they imagined you'd wake up at 2 a.m. and remember to put your $10,000 to $20,000 in your pocket so that you'd stop in the casino and lose some money...
...Duke bureaucracy, she complains, has become removed from the patients, which she thinks is just the way they want it. Kurtzberg picks up the fax from the Russian boy and says, "You can't make those decisions with a letter like this on your desk." Then she adds, "If this kid showed up in my clinic, I wouldn't turn him away...