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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside the U.S." There is a tinge of anger. "This week is the first time in eight weeks that any of those three Government bodies investigating me has asked my opinion on anything," he said. "The idea that I can sit over in my office and pick up the phone and get things fixed is naive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: I Would Keep a Lower Profile | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...While many could see their fate almost instantly, other executives besieged their accountants with questions about the tax plan as they rushed to decide whether to support or condemn the bill, which is scheduled for debate by the full Senate early next month. "I've had to replace my phone handle several times in the past week," quipped Barry Wallach, a partner with the Chicago-based Arthur Andersen accounting firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Up for the New Tax Plan | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Conservative professors contacted yesterday refused to comment on the Tarullo decision. Others did not return phone calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Denies Tenure-Track Professor Permanent Post | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...talk?" When Joan Rivers blurts out her famous catchphrase, it usually signals a barrage of one-liners. But when the brassy comedian posed a similar query to Johnny Carson on the phone last week, the upshot was quite different. According to Rivers, Carson hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Joan Vs. Johnny Show | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...alive only when he puts himself at risk, either by seducing other men's wives or by driving dangerously; a director (Saul Rubinek) whose perfect tastelessness is matched by his impenetrable egocentricity. Obviously Writer-Director Alda has not spent his spare time on television and movie sets on the phone with his agent. He has tuned in to the lunacies of his profession, and when Sweet Liberty is minding its own business--the movie business--it is on high comic ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road of Good Intentions Sweet Liberty | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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