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This may sound like touch-tone utopia, but in reality Murphy's Law prevails. Computer breakdowns and mistakes in programming commonly cause problems. The software bugs that may linger for many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray, a Texas-based communications firm that was acquired last year by Canada's Northern Telecom, installed a PBX system two months ago at AMF headquarters in White Plains, N. Y. Reports one AMF employee: "The new system has its problems. We have trouble with connections, and quite often calls...
...depict their personality types' stereotypical reactions to predictable situations. However, they never get much beyond fairly rote descriptions of what people of their ilk ought to look like. Reed's smiles and breezy invitations, the tedious explanations she makes to her friends the morning after amuse, but don't linger. Rody, whose voice weakens throughout the evening and who is burdened with fairly boring lines to start with, is not helped by her bland soulfulness...
...night in 58 B.C., and a huge manmade hill just above the town marks the burial site of an ancient Celtic hero. A large 11th century feudal castle had loomed over the village until Cardinal Richelieu ordered the castle destroyed in 1627, but its crumbling stone walls still linger...
Still the questions linger. Why does there appear to have been so little thought given even to contingency planning? One well-informed U.S. Government source says that as far as he knows there has been no paper that went through normal Government clearance procedures addressing the question of what to do if the Shah should fall. How can this...
...stay a while, linger and watch her eyes with more than the usual purient interest, maybe you can see her soften...