Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, AT&T appeared to be offering consumers a big break. The telephone giant proposed to slash its long-distance rates by an average of 3.6%. As good as it sounds, though, the move will not ultimately make much of a dent in home phone bills. AT&T said it would carry out the rate cut only if it receives reductions in the "access charges" it pays regional phone companies. These fees give AT&T the right to connect its long-distance lines to local phone systems...
Christie's was not worried. The British auction house rented London's Royal Albert Hall last week, invited 3,000 guests and started the bidding at $3.6 million. Bids came by phone from two continents. Two minutes later, the gavel came down. Sold, for $9.8 million, the highest price ever paid for a car. The buyer, a London vintage-car dealer named Nicholas Harley, said afterward, "Structurally, it's a work of art. I look forward to driving it." Sure, but keep an eye on those hubcaps...
General Counsel Jean Musiker of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) said that the commission receives phone calls from people who have been discriminated against, but the callers must be turned away because the commission is not legally granted the jurisdiction to investigate the problem...
...situation. While most would like nothing more than to plow ahead with the dissertation, they instead wind up--thanks to that angry landlord, the growling belly, and rising loan debts--leading two sections and a sophomore tutorial, grading two arm-fulls of midterms, and receiving midnight phone calls from confused and worried students. Why not the best...
...fueled by that blend of humor, optimism and righteousness peculiar to dark-horse crusaders. It helps him endure those indignities that now come with a campaign, such as confessing that he had used marijuana. It helps him endure the awkward difficulty of having to explain such admissions over the phone to his two young sons...