Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the comment and columns out of Washington there is now a patronizing note of we-tried-to-tell-you-but-you-wouldn't-listen. James Reston of the New York Times, dean of Washington columnists, has accused the American public of taking the Fifth Amendment, blaming everybody but themselves: "How could it have happened? What did the American people know and when did they know it? They knew everything from the start and did nothing about it. They like him because they're like him: well-meaning, optimistic, credulous, stubborn and a little bit dumb...
...Bell might simply look at his telephone and say, "Call Watson." A torrent of new technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push-button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments that are part phone and part computer. They can remember frequently used numbers, block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. Once available only to business customers, these "smart" telephone features are now being offered to residential customers...
...torrent of technology is turning the plain old telephone and its push- + button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments. Among other things, they block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. -- Fujitsu drops its bid for Fairchild. -- Wall Street' s spreading scandal fells Stock Trader Boyd Jefferies. -- Independent filmmakers steal the scene in Hollywood...
...competing rights: the right of the vice consul to speak versus the right of the protesters to have themselves heard." Unfortunately, the dissenters have not listed two rights. No one has the right to be heard. One does have the right to speak. Whether one is heard or listened to is not, nor should be, under the speaker's control. Saying, "I have a right to be heard" implies that you have the right to force someone to listen...
...future of the two Eastern conferences, there are still questions which must be answered. The first is a question of expansion. Bertagna doesn't see much in the way of another 16- or 17-team ECAC. "The executives were happy with the 12-team league...but we would listen to anyone who petitioned," he said...