Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Which is apparently the same attitude Postal Service employees maintain. If you work at the Central Square Post Office, you know what it is to be busy all the time. Busy, busy, busy. So busy that you'll let the phone ring 14 times before you answer it. So busy that when the caller's questions are non-mail-service-oriented, you only have three things to say: "Yes, the Post Office is the most difficult job. I can't talk about it. I really don't have the time...
White-collar guys with blood under their manicured nails, Tom Grunick (played by William Hurt in Broadcast News) and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen in Wall Street) are the ring bearers, the genetically streamlined children, of the new amorality. Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer. Bud does it with long hours and pit-bull doggedness, Tom with his boyish, passive charisma. Both men might tell you that ideals are as passe as peace marches and that the happening disease, the one everyone wants...
Computers blink, phones ring, traders frantically shout buy and sell orders in a verbal version of hand-to-hand combat. A typical day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Henshaw was also found not guilty of luring Maria Picciano, a student at Providence's Johnson and Wales College, into the prostitution ring. In the trial, Picciano said she was not a prostitute, but that she was lonely...
...only unfortunate thing, besides the verdict, was that it would have been nice to have had the testimony of the three other women" who were allegedly involved in the prostitution ring, Craven said. The prosecution was unable to locate the women, whose testimony, Craven said, would have enhanced Kidd...