Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face. A computer then makes more detailed scans at higher and higher resolutions, trying to match facial features to those of family members stored in its memory. (An unfamiliar face would be recorded as a "visitor.") When the machine makes a match, the information is sent by phone lines to Nielsen's central ratings computer, and then to subscribers...
Even as he prepares to graduate, Lee still maintains close ties to his family, who still live outside New Haven, Conn. Voll says that he speaks with his parents frequently by phone, and that he looks after after his younger brother, Lloyd, who this year was a freshperson living in Hurlbut...
...AndI won. And Bunting went out that week, and thislady came in. And I was supposed to play her atping-pong, because Bunting wasn't there. And I sawher many times, and I reminded her, and shethought it was nice to play ping-pong, but shenever picked up the phone and called me to playping-pong...
...being solicited. You should know by now that as a Harvard graduate, you will be solicited every year, by mail and by phone, for the rest of your life. I even called alumni who just died...
...phone, the alumni shared career crises--some denied partner status, others yearning to switch jobs, many balancing child-rearing with work. They shared family concerns--making payments on their first suburban home, divorcing, paying hospital bills. These are circumstances that we'll encounter as well. But the difference between a Harvard education for this class and the alumni before us is not to be found in mundane events...