Word: wiredness
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Sure, there's a real generation gap these days. It's reflected in the debate over which decade is worthiest of feeling nostalgic for. People of the '90s flee from the saggy current Zeitgeist toward some more wired, more meaningful time. The '60s and '70s have attracted big cults, but...
While some victims of rip-offs may wind up with astronomical bills, the industry tries hard to see that their subscribers don't. Most companies monitor any unusual jumps in a customer's calls and can immediately inquire whether the subscriber has made them. Harder to spot is illegal activity...
The ability to "see" such events, the one taking place 477 million miles away and the other in a small, remote pocket of central Africa, is a fairly recent human acquisition. Not so very long ago, before communications satellites and attendant technologies wired the world, the news about what happened...
The plot is well-known by now. Staunch LAPD member Jack Travens (keanu Reeves) play a game of wits with crazy man Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper). Their showdown of sorts centers around a bus that Payne his wired with a bomb set to go off if the speed drops below...
On D-day, Higgins was at the Rotary club in Chicago talking up the nomination of Harry Truman as Vice President. He wired his 30,000 workers / -- New Orleans' first fully integrated force of women, men and blacks -- a message that was read over the company's loudspeakers: "Now the...