Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare rolls. She had been on welfare for six years. Jobs like cleaning hospital rooms and cutting vegetables ended with her quitting or being fired. And she had four kids who had to be shuttled to day care and baby-sitting. When Kimberly Randolph, an operations supervisor for the Sprint phone company in Kansas City, Mo., met Johnson at a job fair, she pegged Johnson as "a job hopper, with a bad attitude." But at her interview, Johnson made a plea. "That was me, and I know it doesn't look good," she said. "But give me a chance...
Johnson took her chance and ran with it. She woke up at 5 a.m. and spent two hours on buses, dragging the kids to day care and then getting to training classes. For nine months now, she has been an operator at Sprint's calling center at 18th and Vine, and she's a star. She sits at a computer with a headset on, placing calls and billing calling cards. She handles 600 calls a day, at an average of 38 seconds a call. Already, she has racked up four "good customer-contact reports" from satisfied callers...
...last far longer on battery power. Also, digital networks generally provide clearer signals than analog. One day, digital networks will blanket the planet. Now, however, coverage is spotty, with smaller places unserved. Worse, there are three different digital "languages"--one used by AT&T, for instance; another by Sprint; and a third, known as GSM, that is big in Europe and offered here by Omnipoint. Alas, they can't understand one another's signals. That's why digital-service providers are throwing in great incentives to buy. The Qualcomm phone ($199) I tried--and would have bought, if Sprint...
...turn out as well, however. Harvard broke its rudder and ended up losing to both Princeton and Yale at the double-duel regatta between the three schools. After a two-week break in its racing schedule, Harvard set out for Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. to compete in Eastern Sprints. The crew was ahead for the first 1950 meters of the 2000 meter race, but was passed by Princeton in the sprint...
...Crimson Key started its activities during the Eastern Intercollegiate Sprint Regatta by providing entertainment for the visiting crews. The Key also broadcast live reports of the race from the coaches' launch to spectators at the finish line during the races...