Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of this newly defined species can best be spotted after 9 p.m. in gourmet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms reaching for the arugula or a Le Menu frozen flounder dinner. In the parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their...
Liedtke and Kinnear talked twice by phone on Friday. Kinnear sent over one last proposal, and Liedtke rejected it. That evening Kinnear and DeCrane gave up and flew back to New York. Texaco's lawyers then filed an affidavit with the Texas appeals court in which the company swore that it could not afford to put up more than $500 million in additional assets for a bond. The maneuver seemed designed to put extra pressure on Pennzoil to accept a settlement. In response, Pennzoil proposed to the court that Texaco could set aside assets worth about $5 billion...
Then she called the Visa company to see if I was a deadbeat. Then she checked the catalog to see if my card had been revoked. Lastly, she filled out the bill and asked me to add my address and phone number to the bottom of the register in order to make sure I really wasn't a deadbeat and to prevent me from absconding with the engine block that served as my claim check...
...shopping in the comfort of my own home. Not from the Home Shopping Club, as a matter of protest, but from catalogs. The Star Market catalog is particularly good. It lets me do all my grocery shopping over the phone. Most of the food is rotten by the time it gets to my house, but they have a great deal on Windex...
Unfortunately, nobody answered the phone at the Norwood Trophy and Engraving Company to take my questions about the quality of their merchandise or about what makes a ladies' gavel different from a men's gavel. I guess I'll have to wait until a gold electroplated thermometer becomes the item of the hour on the Home Shopping Club...