Word: phoned
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Although the case involved a phone company's effort to broaden its right to circulate information among its own divisions, the decision hit a raw nerve--the one that jangles with every telemarketing call. True, all manner of corporations are already trading your personal details in an estimated $3 billion-a-year data market. Most websites are collecting your browsing preferences on the sly, many banks are selling account records on the open market, and sensitive medical files remain vulnerable to snooping. "Americans have little clue about what happens to their personal information," says John Featherman, president of Privacy Protectors...
...restrict the money flow, some experts say, the effect might not be what the reformers hope for. "Almost exactly the same amount would be spent but in different ways," predicts University of Virginia veteran campaign-finance watcher Larry Sabato. Companies, trade groups and unions would fund more grassroots organizing, phone banks, voter-registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach. Yale law professor Ian Ayres...
Parents must also do things they may find difficult--like calling a stranger on the phone or going to a meeting of the parents association. But if you demonstrate the desire to get involved in the school community, chances are your child will too. Attend that first PTA meeting or contact members who have children close in age to yours. Ask some general questions--they will undoubtedly fill in the details...
...half an hour--but when I rebooted my system, I was unable to launch Linux, apparently because my hard drive is too big. (Don't ask. I consulted a long-time Linux user for help, and even he couldn't figure it out.) Since Caldera doesn't offer free phone support, I sent e-mail to the help desk; weeks went by with no answer. I have since given up. That's a shame, because once it was running, Linux lived up to its hype. It never crashed, though it did look at me funny once or twice...
Experts who follow this emerging business-to-business electronic-commerce market call it frictionless, because no faxes, phone calls or paper trails snake back and forth to clog the communications channel between buyer and seller. That is just one aspect of these new wholesale channels that has analysts salivating. B2B companies "are going to reshape the entire economy," says Charles Finnie of Volpe Brown Whelan & Co., an investment-banking firm based in San Francisco. "It's not unlikely that Mr. Greenspan will be sitting in front of Congress in the next couple of years saying one of the main reasons...