Word: palming
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Folks who never saw the need for a Palm Pilot but could still use more order around the house might like the $90 Home Organizer Plus from Simpliciti, available this May. The size of a wall-mounted phone, it features oversize buttons that make it easy to enter grocery lists, reminders and phone messages. Recipes and a scheduler are built in; a $50 snap-on printer is optional...
...often boring job is causing morale problems. In response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is about to take some agents off airplanes and reassign them to surveillance duty in airport terminals. The land-based FAMs will watch out for suspicious behavior and enter their observations into a specially configured Palm Pilot linked to a TSA database. The FAMs will be authorized to detain or arrest suspects. The TSA will not disclose which airports will be watched, but sources say Chicago's O'Hare will be one of the first...
...taken from her Enron office, she happened upon a green sticky-note pad that the firm once handed out to employees. It contains a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." She smacked her palm against her forehead. "You look at it and you think, 'Oh, my God, look how many people at Enron stayed silent," she says, "That's what they wrote. And nobody listened...
ROWLEY: [Addressing Watkins] Whenever you talk, I think, Oh, my gosh, great. She's saying what I think. [Rowley stands up and pounds her fist into her palm as she says this...
...while there was the black comedy of corporate fraud. Who knew that the swashbuckling economy of the '90s had produced so many buccaneers? You could laugh about the CEOs in handcuffs and the stock analysts who turned out to be fishier than storefront palm readers, but after a while the laughs came hard. Martha Stewart was dented and scuffed. Tyco was looted by its own executives. Enron and WorldCom turned out to be Twin Towers of false promises. They fell. Their stockholders and employees went down with them. So did a large measure of public faith in big corporations. Each...