Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their letter concludes with a bribe and athreat. "I have enclosed my resume and $100 cash,and look forward to hearing from you soon. You hadbetter hurry up, because the phone is ringing, andit's probably Goldman, Sachs calling about thatSummer Vice Presidency...
Although the newly renovated rooms have beenplagued by small problems such as phone lines thatdo not work and keys that do not match the locks,students living in the Cabot House dorm praisedtheir new home...
...Florida the following week with his wife Harriet. That is, until Flyway Air called: "Sorry, Mr. Hapless. Due to our merger with Byway Air, your Florida flight has been canceled." Harry got so angry he was going to call the Federal Aviation Administration / immediately. But just then his phone went dead -- no doubt because the Bell System had been split up, he imagined. Well, that was the last straw. A few minutes later a wild-eyed Harry burst into the newsroom of his local newspaper. "I've got a story for you!" he cried. "There is no more service...
...beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances for his victims. We may imagine their despair over returning to a ransacked home. But we are privy to their nonplussed elation the next morning when the windfall lands on their doorstep. It might be said that they experienced the "miracle of radio" (as it was known in the innocent...
...week's end Aquino was facing yet another headache: release of a tape by Enrile's ally Homobono Adaza that records a phone call between the President and her representatives on the constitutional commission. The conversations indicate that Aquino strongly opposed language in the law that would bar U.S. bases, a point she addresses more gingerly in public. The only bright spot in the week, it seemed, was news that the Philippines' Western creditors had agreed to reschedule the country's $870 million debt, an important international vote of confidence in the Aquino government...