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...must confess that I really don't have any clue where row PP really is. But I sense that I ought to invest in some Kleenex stock, pronto...

Author: By Paul D. Tropp, | Title: The Reflections of the Angry Senior | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

...regretted his wasted college years, and enthusiastically vowed to learn math and science pronto...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Ig Nobelity Takes Over at MIT | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

...lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with a pause between the words, unlike the Japanese mushi-mushi). Wei, wei is meaningless, except as a formula to answer the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hoy! Hoy! Mushi-Mushi! Allo! | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Alas, the system, called Pronto, was too slow in catching on. The bank has advised an estimated 25,000 home-banking subscribers that their accounts will be canceled, as of Jan. 31 for individuals and Feb. 28 for small businesses. The move has jarred the banking industry and raised doubts about the future of all home financial services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Back to The Velvet-Roped Lines | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...time he said he would get Gorbachev on the phone and tell him to send a couple of Harvard hockey players participating in a Moscow tournament home pronto...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Wit and Wisdom | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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