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...appeal designed to tug heartstrings. But Baird's apologia did not play well in Peoria -- or the rest of America. Irate callers jammed the phone lines of radio and cable stations across the country, denouncing her tax dodging and calling on her to withdraw. The switchboard on Capitol Hill lit up as constituents weighed in with their representatives. In a single day, Senator Paul Simon's Washington office logged 1,000 calls. "In 18 years in the Senate," said Senator Patrick Leahy, "I had never seen so many telephone calls, spontaneously, in such a short period." Senator Nancy Kassebaum...
...Answer White House switchboard when Bono from U2 calls from on stage during a ZooTV concert. Invite the entire audience over for coffee...
...first time, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission decision, passengers can receive incoming calls in flight -- routed through a central switchboard and wordlessly announced on the video screen so as not to disturb snoozers. More important, passengers will be able to transmit high-quality computer or telefax data from their seats. Travelers carrying laptop computers need simply plug into the standard AT&T RJ-11 connector in the armrest; laptopless passengers can use the system's built-in keypad to punch out a message, displayed on the video screen, and send...
...Yeah, well, like the Sunday shows. Now, it's interesting that when people are rude or arrogant or condescending, the switchboard just goes nuts for three days, people signing up because it makes them angry...
...sense, when he created EDS, the computer-services firm that made his fortune -- Perot hates adverse comment. He remembers the tiniest unintended factual errors by reporters and delights in haranguing them, and anyone else in earshot, about them. One can imagine President Perot keeping the White House switchboard busy all night tracking down out-of-town editorial writers to complain about errant sentences...