Word: palmed
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After years of confounding customers with a tsunami of new rates, packages and plans, big telephone companies like AT&T and MCI may have finally met their match: PhoneMiser. The palm-size PC adapter, below, links a personal computer to your telephone line and then uses software to calculate which of dozens of carriers offers the best deal at any given moment. All your phones on one line (and fax machines and Internet connections) can be simultaneously tied in to the program, which takes about a second to find the cheapest alternative and place the call. The system...
...those visions and their successors in Christianity's first millennium, a colorful, sometimes contradictory mystical vocabulary of heaven emerged. It was a garden, a city, a kingdom, a temple or, less often, a nut, a womb, a navel. It featured buildings and streets of precious metals and jewels, doves, palm trees (first discerned by the church father Lactantius), singing stones (a late borrowing from Celtic myth), white clothing, milk, honey, wine, olive oil, harps, fountains and ladders. It also developed a set of intractable controversies...
DIED. COLONEL JOHN R. BOYD, 70, military theorist; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Air Force pilot's discovery that a plane's agility, not its speed, was a key factor in aerial combat shaped the quick-response design...
...Copeland, whose peach-colored Straya restaurant, complete with palm trees and enough neon to guide air traffic, brings a splash of Las Vegas and Miami Beach to a decaying stretch of New Orleans' elegant St. Charles Avenue, bit back 48 hours later with a two-page ad of his own. Copeland, who favors ostrich-skin cowboy boots and is known across Louisiana as a powerboat racer and founder of Popeyes spicy-fried-chicken chain, began his volley with "Dear Anne" and ended with "P.S.: See you in court. In the meantime, I'm putting a little extra garlic...
This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...