Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Recruitment is not hand-to-hand combat [anymore]," Banks says. "That's what the UMRP does--hand-to-hand recruitment, personal contact by phone and by visits...
Steele began playing on the Radcliffe Rugby team her freshman year very coincidentally. Knowing that she wanted to play a sport in college, she signed up for many different sports at the Freshman Activities Fair. All the teams called back, but all of the phone numbers blew off her desk and "rugby was the only phone number that I remembered...
Certain industries have yielded gushers of eccentrics. Oil gave the world two famous penny-pinching billionaires: J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), legendary for forcing guests at his estate to use a pay phone, and H.L. Hunt (1889-74), who every day either brought his lunch to work in a paper sack or, when not feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved...
...business traveler knows, finding an analog phone jack to plug in the modem of a notebook computer can be a chore. That's because most offices and hotels use digital lines that won't transmit the analog signals generated by a modem. ModemMinder ($40; available in January) from Konexx in San Diego is a small device that solves the problem by converting incoming and outgoing signals to the right format so that you can jack in anywhere...
...CELL PHONE The first cellular phone was developed in 1973 by Martin Cooper at Motorola, and a test of 1,000 such phones followed in Chicago. The Federal Communications Commission authorized cellular service in 1982, and we haven't shut up since. More than a third of all households in the U.S. subscribe...