Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman said she told her former roommate that she would give up the drum if she were paid for past phone bills...
...added that, at the beginning of his tenure,the office received complaints that Harvard wasunresponsive and didn't return phone calls...
...left in the shopping period, and with the curriculum at the brink of collapse, the Core Committee calls an emergency meeting. As Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles presides, discussion deadlocks amidst conflicting interests and overlapping loyalties. Knowles tells his secretary to "get the president on the phone...
...endless campaign has taken its toll, especially when it looked as if he was losing. A longtime ally recalls, only a week or so ago, a midafternoon phone call from the President. "There was a very down, discouraged sense and sound to his voice," the source says. Again and again, Clinton thought he might be home free, particularly in the joyous wake of the fall elections. But he underestimated Republican fortitude--How could they keep ignoring the polls he lives by?--and was stunned that he still hadn't managed to shut it all down. At recent public appearances...
...described a fund he supervised as "niggardly." The 16th-century word, which means "stingy," traces its origins to Old Norse. But other members of the mayor's staff were offended by what they thought was a racist remark. Howard, who is white, apologized immediately, but a stream of angry phone calls from citizens made it clear that the controversy would not go away, and he resigned Tuesday. Most troubling in the campaign of misinformation was Williams' acquiescence to the whole charade: In his comment on the matter, the mayor said Howard had shown "poor judgment" in using the word...