Word: pager
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...Attorney General's wish list last week. Presently, when wiretap authority is granted by a judge, it applies only to a specified phone. In an era of "literally disposable phones," Ashcroft said, investigators need to be able to seek permission to monitor any landline phone, cell phone or pager that a suspect uses, or to go through e-mail from any computer he works on. But once the roving tap is okayed, no judge would further oversee how it was carried out, leaving the FBI to decide on its own how many devices to tap. What Ashcroft's critics predict...
...LINGUAL Just introduced in Japan, this pager-like device translates dog noises into emotions so you can read Fido's mind...
...inhalator gizmo was explained to me by a lovely young nurse in a blue uniform with a pager clipped to her collar. She bent down to show me how it works, and the weight of the pager opened a fabulous landscape of tanned young breasts and gleaming white brassiere. I gazed in and realized that my libidinous urge had shrunk to something akin to my urge to play croquet...
...Though his rise was due in part to his ability to work the halls of power and gain crucial government concessions, he has also been a bold innovator in numerous markets. His early bids for the pager business and the mobile phone business, and his gumption in launching the first Thai satellite when most analysts and experts said that wasn't a viable business are all achievements Thaksin can take credit for. But like most successful businessmen who are handed virtual monopolies, as Thaksin was with his most profitable enterprise, his mobile phone empire, he sometimes overstates the role...
...decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan, any executive who is drowning in e-mail, voice mail, instant messages, pager messages, faxes and cell-phone calls will find this book thought provoking. --By Andrea Sachs...