Word: flips
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Reaching out and touching someone, whether over a terrestrial telephone network or a wireless one, is easier than ever before. The flip side is that buying phone service has never been more complex--a fact borne out by the rising number of billing complaints, which jumped 65% in the first quarter of 2003 compared with the same quarter last year, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Samuel A. Simon, chairman of the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, a consumer advocacy group based in Washington, believes many consumers are irate because they fall for marketing hype and wind up buying more...
...Love the '70s (Aug. 18-22, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a 10-hour, year-by-year celebration of '70s trash culture: the Partridges and the Mod Squad, Underoos and Underalls, CB radios and est. It's the kind of empty-calorie video flypaper at which VH1 excels. Channel-flip across it and, try as you might to resist, say goodbye to the next two hours of your life. Filled out with reminiscences from every B-list celeb who ever came within 50 yds. of a VH1 camera (Ed's Michael Ian Black, Good Day Live's Jillian Barberie, porn star...
...also thought I should immediately flip my company 401(k) into a personal IRA. "There are no advantages to keeping your 401(k)," he said. Gee, I thought, usually everything has advantages and disadvantages. I eventually discovered, for example, that when you draw company stock from a 401(k), it is taxed more favorably than if you draw it from an IRA. I needed to move...
...means on the flip side that Harvard students ultimately bear the responsibility for what they do over the network...
...honesty, it could also do something equally damaging: resurrect the public's pre-9/11 doubts about his competence. Not so long ago, voters seemed to believe that Bush's success in war meant he could lick any problem, from the economy to healthcare reform. But here's the flip side: qualms about his management of postwar Iraq could turn into doubts about all his policies. By nearly 2 to 1, Americans still say the issues closest to home will matter most when they cast their vote for President next year. And according to the TIME/CNN poll, a growing number...