Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT THEY WANTED] --AOL AND ITS KIN, which now depend on slow phone lines, are pushing the FCC for access to high-speed lines, fearing that otherwise consumers will find them obsolete...
...light coat of frost." Over the next two hours, four other F-16s shadowed the plane. By then, the roving aircraft had made the news. Stewart's Australian-born wife Tracey heard it on a TV news report and tried in vain to call her husband on his cell phone. At about 1:24 p.m., the plane fell to earth at 600 m.p.h. and disappeared from radar...
...sell it back to them," Sapp fumed to ESPN. It may be a lousy way to make a buck. But should it be illegal? No. Sapp doesn't have a right to his name as a dot.com For one thing, at least five other Warren Sapps listed in phone books across the U.S. could make the same claim. In the end, Sapp set up his site at big99.com using his jersey number, which seems like a decent outcome...
...next thing you do is find out why the company failed to meet expectations. If you read anything about accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is simple: companies nailed or fessing up for bogus numbers can't be owned. Many never come back. Waste Management, HBO McKesson, Sunbeam--these were all worth booting the moment the accounting problems surfaced. Don't try to rationalize or waffle. Just...
Take the case of Joanne Holderman, a smart, fiftysomething community volunteer and AOL user in Santa Barbara, Calif. Last month she received mail from an official-looking AOL address offering a month's free service to make up for recent difficulties with her phone line. All she had to do was "log on"--that is, reply with her username and password. She duly did so. The next weekend she started getting angry notes from strangers, demanding that she stop sending them pornography...