Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When they admitted responsibility for the attack Tuesday, the Real IRA insisted so many people died in the predominantly Catholic town because the police misread their warnings. Not so, said Tony Blair, and the British prime minister promptly released an audio tape of the group's first phone call to a Belfast TV station. "There's a bomb, courthouse," it says. In the event, people evacuated from the courthouse were led directly into the street where the car bomb stood. TIME London Bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says it is quite possible that the terrorists intended to target the courthouse, "drove...
Playing telephone tag with your doctor is one of the most common--and frustrating--rituals of modern medicine. You phone...can't get past the receptionist...leave a message. Your doctor calls back while you're in a meeting...leaves a message. The amount of time wasted on both sides turns everybody sour. But a growing number of physicians are prescribing a dose of e-mail as the antidote...
...expect an instant response. Most doctors try to reply within 48 hours. If it's an emergency, use the phone. And think before you send. One reason why a lot of doctors have not installed e-mail on their office computers is that they fear being overwhelmed with messages. (Which they will be, unless they set ground rules, and their patients cooperate.) So if you're lucky enough to have direct access to your physician via computer, don't abuse the privilege--or we could all wind up playing telephone tag forever...
That may be true. But Slabbers have built a society somewhat like the one they fled, with good neighborhoods and bad, gentle souls and sociopaths, entrepreneurs and lazy Lebowskis. And Barnett's got a cell phone and color TV, for crying out loud...
...offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio. By quitting, Mikhail-Ashrawi has become a hero to a public fed up with the malfeasance rampant in Arafat's administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. "They say, 'You're the only man in the Cabinet,'" reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source close to Arafat confirms that Mikhail-Ashrawi's move was a blow to the Chairman. "She hurt him," says the source. "Hanan...