Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They might have to cut off my finger," she said. "I can't believe it." She then told us that, earlier in the evening, the car she was driving with a friend to their home in Virginia was forced into a guardrail by some men asking for their phone number. When the car skidded and flipped over, the assailants drove off, leaving the two girls bleeding in the overturned...
...mail circulating around the Net, entitled "My Carreer as Editor of The New Yorker," Slate editor Michael Kinsley says Conde Nast chief Si Newhouse initially asked him to edit the weekly. But in a late-night phone call the magazine mogul retracted the offer, asking Kinsley to say he'd withdrawn his name. Kinsley, a former Crossfire host, at first agreed to keep quiet about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't almost job, but then, Kinsley writes in his e-mail, "on reflection... I decided I was not inclined to do him the favor of not discussing...
...alarmist enough to prod business leaders into action. "The consequences of the millennium bug, if not addressed, could simply be a rash of annoyances, like being unable to use a credit card at the supermarket," Clinton said. But the worst-case scenario? He added: "It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service." Not to mention Vice President Gore's presidential ambitions...
Desperately seeking new features to distinguish their wares, pager and cell-phone makers are replacing beeps and rings with popular melodies. Nokia's 6100-series cell phones perform The Lone Ranger's theme song (a.k.a. the William Tell overture), the ever popular Charleston Rag and Beethoven's Fur Elise, while Philips' Myna pager croons Over the Rainbow and The X-Files song. Earplugs, anyone...
...online chat has been in recent years, it has never quite made it to the level of real-life conversation. Now AT&T's Chat 'N Talk makes it easier--and safer--to move to the next level: live phone conversations through anonymously placed calls that let two people talk to each other without giving out their phone numbers. The service can be accessed through AT&T, Excite or Lycos websites for 25[cents] a minute...