Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never answers his phone. If you want to ask him a question, you must follow his circuitous automated phone menu for at least 20 minutes, after which you can talk to an operator who will say that you have reached the wrong department. Your problem/question is the business of Cindy in the Dispatch Department, and Cindy is only available on the Third Monday after Lent, from 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time to 12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time...
...about $1.5 billion. And since he recently rejected a more substantial one-percent cut, it was unclear whether President Clinton would be willing to sign off on the proposed cuts. In the course of persuading the President to bend, Speaker Dennis Hastert was obliged to run up quite a phone bill: After two calls to Turkey, where the Clintons are touring, Hastert reported the two sides had reached an agreement, pending the expected approval of Dick Gephardt. The Minority Leader will confer with Congressional Democrats, many of whom are staunch in their opposition to across-the-board cuts...
...thought it was the phone, but it was really loud," said Emily A. Spengler...
Union president Janice Loux didn't return two weeks of Crimson phone calls and faxes...
...author of the legislation, went to see Bush to tell him it was dead, Bush invited him to dinner at the Governor's mansion. Until then, the Governor had kept his distance from legislative machinations. That night he weighed in. With Sibley by his side, Bush got on the phone with the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock, and in a matter of minutes hammered out a compromise that saved the bill. Even though the deal angered some of Bush's allies in the business community, he stuck by it. "He's like the guy at the pool party who sort...