Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hello, this is Hillary Clinton," gurgles your answering machine. And it really is Hillary, no joke, asking you to vote Democratic in last week's elections. She wasn't quite so tireless that she actually phoned individual voters, but she came close. That phone message--left automatically on thousands of machines across the nation--was just one of 100 phone scripts and radio spots she recorded. She also banked millions at some 50 fund raisers and spoke at 34 rallies, blasting through 10 states in the final days like a madwoman...
...event, her speeches were crammed. In San Francisco two weeks ago, Boxer's people booked a room for 600 for Hillary. Double that number showed up (and they paid to see her). A Rhode Island group tarried four hours to hear and cheer her. In California, Hillary's phone message startled many of the women who got home from work to hear it (the Boxer campaign targeted 775,000 women with phone banks). Some who then went to see her at public events would shriek, "I got a message from you at home...
...familial element of computers took off in the early 1980s, a movement similar to how the Internet and email have revolutionized communication in the 1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons...
...stunk not being able to put on the uniform," Larkworthy says. "There were a lot of phone calls home to my parents...
...Lucianne Goldberg the Oliver North of the Lewinsky scandal? "I take all the blame," the literary agent told reporters Thursday, after she testified before a Maryland grand jury over Linda Tripp's recordings of conversations with the White House intern. Phone-tapping without the other party's consent is illegal in the state of Maryland, and the investigation has focused on whether Tripp knew that. Now Goldberg -- who appears to have recorded all her own conversations, too -- has handed over tapes in which she tells Tripp that the Lewinsky recording would be legal under federal law. "I didn...