Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's transportation around the mountains was a bus, of course, but for some reason the two friends found it endlessly funny that it was a school bus (no air conditioner). Every day Dwight called home. "Sometimes twice a day," Dan Gooden says. "One month we had a $460 phone bill, and I told my wife, 'I'm going to have that telephone taken out.' Well, he was only...
Chirac and his advisers worked through the night and all day Wednesday before settling on a new Cabinet acceptable to Mitterrand. Much of the communication with the Elysee was indirect. A favored channel: regular phone calls between top aides. Mitterrand used the process to reject several Chirac choices. Among them was U.D.F. Leader Jean Lecanuet, 66, whom Mitterrand vetoed as Foreign Minister because of his recent criticism of the President and his past enthusiasm for military ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The key appointments...
...White House, spokesman Larry Speakes said that by 10:30 a.m. yesterday, 1,952 calls and wires had been received in support of Reagan, while there were 799 against the President's plan. O'Neill said phone calls and telegrams to his office totaled 119 against Reagan's plan and 38 in favor...
...subjected all his passions to cost analysis. In order of importance, his preoccupations were the oil business, sex, and bargain hunting for art. He even looked the part: a Scrooge-like figure with a lecherous gaze living in an underheated English manor house that contained a public pay phone in the hall...
...next decade the brothers would talk, says Phil, "only during family crises." Finally, in 1982, Don picked up the phone to resolve their own crisis. "It was like I'd talked to him yesterday," Phil says. They had lunch, got drunk, and within ten months were singing at their reunion concert in London. There was a subsequent record of the concert as well as a companion television special. PBS did a documentary history of the brothers, and the pair released EB '84, an album that brought them smartly up to date. Perhaps because their rift had been so long...