Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantage of the new low-power personal communication systems over conventional cellular phones is that they are lighter and more versatile; the disadvantage is that they need more antenna sites, spaced more closely together. And in the competitive rush to get their pcs networks up and running, companies are cobbling together erector-set structures and slapping them down willy-nilly. "Pretty soon when we look out at a sunset," says Jacksonville, Florida, homeowner Suzanne Jenkins, "these towers will be what...
...BOBBY RUSH (D) District...
This former Black Panther may be the only member of Congress to have served time for weapons possession (six months in 1969), but he is now an advocate of gun control. Rush is also the only Illinois Democrat on the House Commerce Committee. If he survives recent legal problems--with the IRS over back taxes and the City of Chicago for delinquent parking tickets--Democrats can keep one of their more interesting members...
...Canadian team," Kirrane says. "We still [didn't] know what's going on. They put us all on the same bus, threw all our bags into a truck. Zingo, right to the airport. We got on a Royal Air Force plane. Everything was a big rush and [we] were wondering what's going...
...West Coast bureau chief with the fervor that has kept colleagues' heads spinning for years. This week her bureau contributed to a typical array of stories, including Bob Dole's last-ditch campaign effort in California, the state's ballot initiative on marijuana, the latest rush of O.J. Simpson revelations and the retooling of the CBS sitcom Ink. Booth, who did standout reporting from Haiti and Cuba while heading TIME's Miami bureau, says of her new turf, "We have every story of the 21st century here, from Hollywood to high tech, from crime and the environment to immigration...