Word: wiring
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...Vice President's approach resulted in a 20-hour delay in the news getting out. The more normal method takes five minutes. A Bush communications official picks up the phone anywhere in the world and says to the White House operator, "I need to make a wire call." A few minutes later, the operator calls back with Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg reporters on the line, ready to flash the news around the world...
...okay and the poor man that he shot in Texas on Saturday, Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old fellow hunter, doesn't seem to be hurt too badly. It was birdshot, after all and not a bullet that hit the Texas lawyer while they were hunting in South Texas. Wire reports say Whittington is still in the hospital. The story was broken by the Corpus Christi Caller Times. According to the Vice President's Office, medical personnel, always in great abundance around a Vice President-let alone one who has had four heart attacks-were quick to clean...
...although this time it's in the place he's native to. In California Hockney was all about brightly striped shirts and mismatched pastel socks. Bridlington Hockney goes in for charcoal tweeds and plaid slippers. The blond hair has gone gray. The big round eyeglasses have been exchanged for wire ovals. His socks match. Hockney has begun looking like a man who has found his psychological default mode. It's the eternal English householder...
...Mexico drinking your beer, sleeping with your wife and spending your hard-earned money looms large in their mythology. He has even been given a name: Sancho. Taking a break from sodding a lawn in the Hampton town of Springs, a worker named Neftalí jokes that he has to wire some money to Mexico that weekend because, he says with a grin, "Sancho needs new shoes...
...President should be more respectful of individual rights and the separation of powers. Any important wire tap needs to be approved by the appropriate court, a simple but vital check on the authority of government officials. We citizens are sacrificing too much because of the Bush Administration's lust for unchecked power. JERRY BORROWMAN Sandy, Utah...