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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Telltale signs of a prank include Lucifer Associates' address at 66 Madison Ave., a nonexistent phone number and an office in Dis, a level of hell in Dante's Inferno. The Office of Career Services (OCS) does not list the company as an on-campus recruiter...

Author: By Esther S. Yoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucifer Associates Joke Bedevils Students | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth Ray ("I can't type...I can't even answer the phone"), and Paula Parkinson, who didn't play golf but teed up on an outing to Florida with top Republicans. Maxa says Flynt has created the ideal situation for loosening tongues: "money layered on top of revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Proposal | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...another recent victory, an environmental coalition forced MacMillan Bloedel, Canada's largest lumber company, to stop clear-cutting and to stay out of pristine coastal rain forests. The tactic that worked? Getting MacBloe's big customers, such as Pacific Bell (whose phone books were made partly with old-growth wood), to ratchet up the pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop, Home Depot | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...school began receiving harassing calls, while the Dunwoodys' answering machine recorded messages on behalf of David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "I thought it was a cute little story," says Brendan's father George. "But then the Governor of New York called from his car phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Aplio Internet phone--now there's a technology that I can instantly understand and even endorse. Who among us doesn't want to save money on long-distance phone bills? Aplio, a device that uses the Net to circumvent the phone company, promises to cut "up to 95% off your long-distance bill," according to its marketing literature. I'd be willing to settle for half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phone Free | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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