Word: two-way
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...their time with Gorbachev to sound out the opening Soviet position in Geneva and to hint at "Washington's. "The Russians know perfectly well that anything they say to us will go straight back to Washington," said a British diplomat in London. "We will be acting as a two-way conduit...
Airfone is hardly the first such experiment. Since the late 1940s, numerous systems, some of them versions of two-way radio, have been tested, but they were of poor quality and limited range. Private and corporate aircraft have long been licensed for radio telephones, but they require special operators, and calls can be overheard on some other radio equipment. Lack of privacy, however, has not deterred the clients of small and svelte Regent Air, which began the old-fashioned service in August. In addition to being provided with caviar and executive secretaries for $810 one-way between the New York...
...two-way ticket that makes the holiday of whatever type at once so safe, so pleasurable, and, literally, so irresponsible. It is a walk on the wild side, but a walking tour only; a desire to see and feel and even judge, and then leave. To stay-i.e., to be serious-is to miss the point. "A perpetual holiday," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a good working definition of hell." Getting home isn't half the fun. It's all of it. -By Charles Krauthammer
...tract development a few miles from Dayton that she was to satirize as "Suburbian Gems." Its real name is Centerville. The Bombecks lived on Cushwa Drive ("probably named for some dentist") in a house like all the others except for one prized interior feature, a $1,500 "two-way" fireplace, and on the outside, a front door they painted red so that Mother Erma and Tom Harris could find them when they visited...
...that 7 million cellular telephones could be operating by 1990. General Motors is helping, at least with top-of-the-line models. In March, Buick began offering a cellular phone as an option, at $2,900, on Rivieras sold in the Chicago area. Motorola, the company that first put two-way radios in police cars in 1938, is marketing a portable version that lets callers remove the devices from their cars. People can thus take the phone indoors and use it just like that one over there on the wall. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Jerome...