Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pollack, Harvard made its best effort to make her say yes--letters, phone calls, a tennis recruitment video tape (sold to her for $23), the recruitment trip and prefrosh week. But she still has not withdrawn an application to Princeton University, and she says the decision will be a tough one if she is admitted there...
...many Americans are frustrated and out of touch with the Washington elite--which many feel includes legislators and lobbyists, video news jockeys and journalists, talk radio has become the most vigorous medium for free speech, providing a podium and an audience to anyone who has a dime for a phone call. The nation needs muckrakers like Williams and his colleagues across the country to keep asking questions about where the country is headed and how it's getting there...
...triumphed over a homegrown bid from Fiat, as well as proposals from French, West German and Swedish competitors. The Italian project will help give AT&T a strong foothold in the fast-growing European telecommunications market. Italtel, for its part, hopes to parlay its new association into expanded phone-equipment exports...
...Brown sounded dangerous to mainstream white America. The rhythm-and-blues man, who says he is 55, belonged to a presidential task force and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won two Grammy Awards and has had an audience with the Pope. When the phone rings in his office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers, "Godfather of Soul." But the boss can't come to the phone right now. James Brown, the self- styled Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, is 70 miles away in South Carolina's State Park Correctional Center, serving...
There he is listed as James J. Brown, No. 155413. "I'm just sitting quiet, not saying a thing, serving my time," says Brown from a pay phone inside the minimum-security facility. Every day he rises at 5:15 to dish out breakfast in the cafeteria, wearing a cook's white uniform and cap, embellished by purple wraparound sunglasses and a matching purple foulard scarf. He directs the chapel choir, and attendance has doubled since he got there. On Saturdays, his wife Adrienne, a former hair stylist with the television show Solid Gold, brings a dryer...