Word: pagers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expelled." the words flashed across presidential aide Mike McCurry's pager on Thursday afternoon as he was on his way to the funeral of one of the U.S. diplomats killed in Bosnia two weeks ago. At the chapel, McCurry sought out Anthony Lake, the National Security Adviser, and showed him the message. Lake raised his eyebrows, pleased and surprised...
...background. Most of his dealings with the President take place in meetings in the private residential area of the White House or by phone from Morris' home in Connecticut. He registers under an alias at the Ritz-Carlton when he visits Washington and is usually reachable only by pager. But Morris has managed to overshadow almost every other Clinton adviser by winning the backing he needed most-not only from the President but also from Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. While the First Lady's policy views differ from those of the right-leaning Morris, she has admired...
...lucky! Perhaps I can catch some Harvard undergraduates sitting around the dinner table and discussing the nuanced arguments of Bentham or the witty repartee of Molière!" But our eager observer would be out of luck, for the real conversations go as follows: "Yeah, I have an eight-pager due tomorrow and a 15-pager due Monday" or "I have a problem set due Thursday and another one due Tuesday. And I have a final I haven't started studying for on Wednesday...
...green, blue and black high school-style lockers where they stow their personal belongings. Unanchored, workers move about wherever their business takes them. Given the choice of working where they please, nearly half the staff telecommutes either from home or from the road, keeping in touch by pager, cellular phone, fax, computer and modem...
...those who want their information delivered in a trickle, rather than in a stream, consider Motorola's Sports Trax, a pager that feels like a cross between a radio and the sports page of a daily newspaper. Pick your favorite baseball team, and the clever pager "trax" it like a die-hard fan, transmitting pitch-by-pitch updates of every game and displaying the action on a calculator-like screen in real time all season long -- if there ever is another season...