Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through half a dozen Latin American countries. Eventually, he quit globe-trotting long enough to pick up another master's degree, at Harvard, where he also taught for two years before signing on as a staff writer for TIME in 1982. (He accepted the job from a pay phone in Sardinia...
Shortly before the office mailed out its acceptance letters, an admissions officer overheard James, who is also a photographer for The Harvard Independent, talking on the phone about her assignment for the paper. The officer insisted that James be fired, thinking that she was leaking information. Eventually, James says, the misunderstanding was cleared...
...Right on that day they were kind of uncertain what was going to happen to them," David M. Kanter '88 says, recalling his phone conversation...
...amuse his new roomates, Elby had also sent Martin a letter depicting himself and his house in stick figures, and had written to Salovaara, saying that because Salovaara lived in Illinois, farther from Cambridge than any of the others, he would be expected to pay all the long distance phone bills...
...success on the job ultimately is governed by nothing more than the fabled characteristics of Willy Loman. (He gets his shoeshine, while he smiles--and continues to trade bonds, thanks to the technology that Wall Street firms have devised to polish shoes while brokers make frantic trades on the phone...