Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then Hafsat got a phone call demanding she fly to Washington to meet with family friends. When she arrived, they sat her down and told her that her mother had been gunned down in Lagos...
...TIME's writer and photographer watched from the lobby of their motel as a notorious Billings crank dealer, facing state charges at the time, received a steady stream of predawn customers in a room directly across the courtyard. ("You know he's in," the night clerk said, "when the phone lines all light up at once.") Approached for an interview about his trade, the wanted man, a tattooed giant on a bed surrounded by a clutch of weary party girls, merely said, "I'm busy. I don't have time now." Last week the alleged dealer was arrested in another...
...born in Martinique, lives in France and plays in Germany. Regis is married to an American, and he got his citizenship papers just before the U.S. team left for France. Regis was tutored for his citizenship test by other players, and soon after becoming an American answered his phone to hear the national anthem being sung by his teammates. It doesn't get cornier than that, but this U.S. team happens to be an amiable bunch in addition to being talented. But at least for the time being, American soccer players aren't famous enough to be arrogant...
...with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...
...Most of the problems have affected the facilities themselves," Lee said, citing wet carpets, buckling tile floors and dead phone lines as the main concerns...