Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Have I have forgotten how to meet people? Maybe I never knew, as my empty Rolodex and barren weekends seem to proclaim. What caused this disastrous social failure? I blame “network aversion...
...These were the individuals whose interest in my person was not motivated by attempts to grow a network base, or at least if it was, I couldn’t tell. These individuals had legitimate reason to interact with me other than using me as another contact in their Rolodex...
...Winners RICHARD PRYOR Comedian's hometown of Peoria names seven city blocks after him. Note to self: bone up on racial profanities and consume copious drugs ALEXANDER KARADJORDJEVIC Son of King Peter II returns to Belgrade palace after Milosevic vacates. Keeps 900-number Rolodex, but tosses Benny Hill bootlegs JOHN MAJOR Life and times of this bionic man will be made into West-End musical?no wait, that's Lee Majors. Who exactly is this guy? Losers IRA EINHORN Old hippie activist is finally extradited for the murder of his girlfriend. Says a government plot kept him stoned...
...called “Rolodex problem” was something that Simpson said she observed at ABC News and got together with others to create a list of minority experts. “Change can be affected when people of color come together,” she said...
Ultimately, we are only here for four years. Whatever community or identity we form is fluid, pushed out after Commencement and dispersed back across the nation and the world. Granted, we may emerge with a handful of lifelong friends, a rolodex of useful business acquaintances, and maybe--if we are lucky--a partner for life. But the person next door to you in your first year will not, in all likelihood, be the person next door to you in 50 years. Just as we are close together now, the same distance that plagues our families will someday plague our relations...