Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lucky break came when an article appearedon the front page of the Sydney Morning Heralddetailing the efforts of a young woman to be thefirst aborigine to attend Harvard. The Australianpublic responded with enough phone calls offeringdonations that Sykes could pay her first year'stuition...
...that a pipe from the apartment immediately upstairs from hers has sprung a leak through her ceiling. Cholodenko, whose script won the Screenwriting Award at this spring's Sundance Film Festival, is nonetheless more than willing to throw in a few unlikely convolutions--the landlord doesn't answer his phone (apparently for days), Syd has a way with a wrench and some duct tape--to shuttle her protagonist into the upstairs den of depraved sophistication where her story will take...
...YORK: At a little over $50 a share, AT&T is paying top dollar to drive Tele-Communications Inc.'s cable wires into local phone markets. That's 40 percent over what TCI stock was before the rumors of the deal started flying. AT&T is even soaking up TCI's $11 billion in debt along with the $37 million it's paying for the cable business -- but it's worth it, says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec: "AT&T needed this. It gives them a way to get into the local phone market that they couldn't figure...
...course. AT&T has a habit of buying things just to keep up with the Joneses. It swallowed NCR to get into computers, which was a disaster. But Kadlec says the TCI purchase simply extends the company in a natural direction -- allowing it to re-enter the lucrative local phone market that it once dominated. "AT&T has finally solved a strategic problem that brought down its last two CEOs," said Kadlec. Whatever happens, TCI stockholders ought to be happy today: Shares jumped another $4 to $42 on Wednesday's confirmation of the deal...
...instructed to lie about it. Lewinsky's attorneys resolved a dispute between a Washington, D.C., bookstore and investigators by agreeing to release information on her purchases -- Starr's team supposedly wants those records to determine whether she purchased a copy of Nicholson Baker's phone-sex bodice-ripper...