Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office building unless he climbs to the roof.) Bowing to technological reality, Iridium decided that its phones should piggyback on terrestrial cell-phone networks. Then the question became--which ones? An Iridium phone needs different plug-in modules to speak the language of different cellular standards, like NADC in the U.S. and GSM in most of the rest...
...will be able to confirm that relations between our countries are growing by the day," Mandela writes. "These relations make it possible for us to create more resources to meet our people's basic needs: jobs, skills and schooling; a roof over their heads, healthcare...
...previous events can be any indication, expect under-cover agents wandering through the crowds, and observer (and possibly sniper) teams on nearby roof-tops...
...long event if you don't plan it right--you have to confirm you know someone at the return address and that you were expecting a package. One doubtful look and your package may be whisked away to be opened by professionals, in a shrapnel-proof roof...
Anyone trying to recover in the wake of last week's visit by Hurricane Bonnie probably isn't feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn't the first thing you think of when your living room is full of mud, your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on end. But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this magnitude, residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia got off remarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property damage was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained largely intact...