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Word: pagers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about what's gone down in his life in the last 24 hours or so. Puffy seems quite composed, given what he's been through lately. His voice is calm, his face placid, his eyes shaded below the brim of a blue baseball cap. He has a two-way pager in his hand and he's firing off messages about who knows what to who knows whom. But when we start to talk he gives me his complete attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapping With Beat-the-Rap Puffy | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...Puffy wants to go back into the show. "You like Jill Scott?" he asks, smiling. He's enjoying his night and is ready to get back to it. The pager is back out again. "I'll holler at you," he says. And then he's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapping With Beat-the-Rap Puffy | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...police have talked to Hood, who has changed her phone and pager numbers several times recently, out of habit, she says, not because she is hiding. She says on that Friday night, Derwin Brown talked to her about handling his press. She says she does not understand why the Browns or others would suggest she knows more than she is telling. "How could I signal the killer? How do you do that? I don't know anything about killers," she says. She says she admired Derwin as well as his wife. And even though Hood was busy with charity work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Who Shot The Sheriff? | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

Estrada was given a deadline by a panel of opposition negotiators: he had to resign by Saturday at 6 a.m. All through Friday night, demonstrators continued to gather. This has been called the pager revolution for good reason: within minutes of the Senate vote, text messages had flashed through the Manila ether telling anti-Estrada Filipinos to GO TO EDSA. Hundreds of thousands converged on the capital, following directions to, as one message put it, WEAR BLACK TO MOURN THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY. Said another text message: EXPECT THERE TO BE RUMBLES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Power Redux | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

This trend is the logical flip side to bringing your home into the office, a movement I was a proud pioneer in as early as 1990, when I routinely and unapologetically phoned the plumber from work. Now, as workplace tools like beepers, pagers and e-mail make an inevitable incursion into your life, you can harness their usefulness in the home too. If you keep a calendar for work on your Palm, cannibalize the idea to create a master family calendar to keep track of soccer games and piano lessons. Give colleagues and teachers a single e-mail address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneaking in Work | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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