Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omansky approached Phone Programs about publicizing D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a new rap duo. AT&T provided the necessary 900 area-code number. The result was an immediate hit. Spurred on by a TV ad campaign, some 2.5 million rapsters have rung up Jazzy Jeff and friend since the debut of their two- minute talkfest last June. The cost: $2 for the first minute, 45 cents a minute thereafter. Other hot lines soon followed. Now word of Phone Programs' success has got around. "People from every walk of music are coming to us," says V.P. Cory Eisner...
...flesh. He can hear the roar of jets; Beirut airport is near. The former U.S. Marine is % stunned and sobs constantly, frustrated, angry and afraid that the kidnapers intend to execute him. A guard bursts in and threatens him merely because he creaked the bedsprings. "I am a friend of the Lebanese," Anderson had told his family. "They won't kidnap me. I tell their story to the world...
That is too harsh, although this final leg sometimes displays the enervation of a long haul. When last seen, Talbot was in a severely damaged and leaky old warship. Now the weather turns ornery. Talbot mentions this to his new friend, the ship's first lieutenant Charles Summers, and receives a scary response: "You have seen nothing yet, Edmund. There is something at the back of this wind...
Just as important, he is an old friend of George Bush's -- a key asset in this presidency -- and has ties to two other Administration power centers. While serving as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in 1975 and '76, Cheney worked alongside Brent Scowcroft, then as now the National Security Adviser, as well as Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign...
Twenty minutes later, hoping I had learned my lesson, I told another high school friend about this "woman." "Get off it!" she responded. "Why are you foisting so much maturity on us before we're ready? We're girls...