Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height of the apple panic that the Chilean fruit phobia began. The first phone call to the U.S. embassy in Santiago was followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday...
...eaten a grape in the past three days and had a headache thought the culprit was cyanide. "We advised them of the fast-acting nature of cyanide, which takes effect in one or two minutes," he said. "Basically, if they're still alive and kicking to get to the phone, they probably don't have anything to worry about...
...music, which is in heavy supply aboard the other R.E.M. vehicles. He keeps a bottle of Evian water mixed with herbal powder close at hand and claims he can, as some animals do, anticipate earthquakes days before they occur. His house in Athens has no TV and no phone. Says drummer Berry: "The three of us are just as average as you can get, but Michael is obviously an unusual person. He is different. I don't know if he has hot water in his house even now. We would all be kind of boring if it weren...
...parents, professional women justifiably suspect that some bosses now categorize their female employees into two classes: mothers and achievers. "The idea is really offensive," declares Maryellen Cattani, a partner in a San Francisco law firm, whose Volvo carries her daughter's child seat in the back and a car phone in the front...
...true those guys are getting all the publicity and all the attention," Hartje says. "And it's me answering the phone calls from all those newspapers and saying 'Here, C.J., here Lane...