Word: perked
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...incumbent telephone companies," says David Isenberg, a former Bell Labs researcher and respected industry observer. Vonage, for example, has 70,000 customers paying $34.99 a month for unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada. You just link your phone to your broadband connection via an adapter. An added perk: you can choose any area code in the country. Buy a second line for $4.99 a month, for instance, and select the area code of the college your daughter attends so that all her calls home will be local. Companies like Packet8, VoicePulse and Addaline all offer some variation...
...finding new songs isn’t the only perk; iTunes can also forge new relationships. One’s musical tastes can provide plenty of insight into personality and compatibility. At Lamont last week, I was smitten by Margo, whose vast collection of soundtracks and eclectic pop tastes mirrored my own aural fetishes. Was Margo my true soulmate? Were we meant to be? A quick directory search suggested that the answer was, sadly, no. The only undergraduate Margo I found was some guy in Currier House, although there is a visiting professor at the Law School who just...
...perk for Simpsons writers is the opportunity to watch the show’s many celebrity guest stars come into the studio to record their voice-overs. Warburton says that he enjoys making them nervous by watching them through the studio window...
Chocolate bars and ice cream aren't the only products getting makeovers to please the growing carb-avoiding public. The all-American French fry is being retooled to overcome its unwholesome image--and perk up its sagging sales...
...first time I realized that stock options were more than just a nice perk--that they had created a culture of their own, different in unexpected ways from the one in which most of us live--came about a year after I went to work for Microsoft in the mid-1990s. One of the software jockeys I worked with announced he was going to "retire." He had joined the company straight out of college and had been there seven or eight years. He was 30 years old. Why retire? He explained, "Well, as you know, I just got married...