Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite unfair that I, at the tender age of 23, should be forced to pay rent, the phone bill, the food bill, the car payment with insurance, gas, maintainance, my student loan payment, clothes bills, taxes (federal, state, and local), and even my movie money The "financial elitism," as practiced by the clubs represents the horrid specter of Fiscal Responsibility rearing its ugly head, roaring that all those who share the privileges must share equally the financial burden. Why, you know what my problem is? The world capitalist system has conspired to practice "financial elitism" on me, forcing...
...tracked to a ground-floor apartment in Hannover, West Germany, he had accomplished perhaps the most extensive breach of U.S. computer security to date. While no top secrets appear to have been uncovered, the incident shows how easy it can be to go fishing for sensitive information via phone lines and personal computers...
Like many historic mistakes, Executive Order 9066 won approval almost offhandedly. On Feb. 11, 1942, preoccupied by a two-front war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided not to bother with a meeting on the subject and simply said yes in a phone call to his Secretary of War, adding the bland advice, "Be as reasonable as you can." Signed a week later, the order led to the roundup and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II, an action that Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga calls the "one great blot on the Constitution." Last week...
...continue to exercise tremendous power. How Dukakis deals with that power will be critical. On the personal level, their dealings have advanced from politely cool to vaguely friendly. Jackson customarily greets his adversary with a breezy "Hey, Duke." Dukakis, after some prodding, has recently taken to placing small-talk phone calls to Jackson. "We're going to continue to build what I hope will be a good relationship," Dukakis said. "We are united in the feeling that the stakes are very high in this election. We both want a new kind of leadership in the White House...
...cigarette, she will often say, "Don't tell Michael!" On nights before primary votes, she does not sleep, and she is a devoted reader of tracking polls, which he largely ignores. High-strung and hyper, she speaks in a quick, clipped cadence, like someone eager to get off the phone in order to make another call. The two complement each other. It may well be true that the only person who knows the real Kitty is Michael and that the only person who knows the real Michael is Kitty. Yet there is one attribute they share: ambition...