Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip home. Think about how to make the most of the upcoming time with your family. And do something to get yourself in a good mood, whether it's listening to music in the car or reading a novel on the train, rather than returning calls on the cell phone. When you get home, change out of your work clothes, let the machine take your calls, and stay away from e-mail...
...there's anything more annoying than political ads, it's the bombardment of silly, confusing messages from phone companies trying to win your business. Politics, at least, goes away for a couple of years. No chance the phone companies will rest. They've got way too much explaining to do--like why phone bills take hours to decipher, why customers aren't automatically switched to plans that best fit their calling patterns, why long-distance carriers shift you back and forth without your consent and why it can cost more to call the next county than the next state...
...phone gods would rather focus on things like last week's $115 billion merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...first 20 minutes--a bargain if you talk a lot. But you pay 99[cents] even if you're on the line for just a minute, making that rate one of the highest around. They don't tell you that. Here are some tips to keep your phone bill down...
...Every three months call your local phone company and ask if you are on the plan that best suits your calling patterns. They'll tell you. But you have...