Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his poll-tested, microbrewed policies, but it can be jarring--or laughable--to see someone with a reputation for deep thought on arms control and the environment elbow aside Cabinet Secretaries to take a bow for improving concrete pavements, increasing lost-luggage compensation and offering a three-digit phone number for traffic-jam updates. Still, when voters sweep up all the crumbs, a Gore associate predicts, "they'll add up to something more thematic, something bigger...
...part of Serbia. How the adventure turns out hangs precariously on the decisions of Milosevic. Will he buckle under or hunker down? Or will he lash out with his carefully hoarded missiles and planes to fracture the still fragile NATO alliance? The bombing would stop if he were to phone in his agreement to a truce and enforceable autonomy for Kosovo. If he doesn't, no one is quite clear about how this drama will...
...Albanians were struggling against a quickly escalating ground war. Serbian troops, who had been massing on Kosovo's borders for weeks, began to squeeze the province, forcing many units of the rebel K.L.A. to fight for their lives. "We are encircled," a K.L.A. commander told TIME in a hurried phone call during a break in the shooting. "All around us are Serb forces and at least 30,000 troops and more than 200 vehicles. We are not in a very good position...
Then Clinton had to pass the word to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who went ballistic on the phone for 45 minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend...
Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...