Word: switchboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then another snowboarder, Austrian Martin Freinademetz, trashes his hotel room and ruins a switchboard by spilling beer...
...accuser took the stand on the second day and testified about her relationship with Albert, which she said began in 1986 when he was still married and she was a hotel switchboard operator in Miami. She said that on the night in question, the otherwise affectionate Albert bit her back and forced her to perform oral sex. During cross-examination, Black stunned the accuser and the prosecution by playing a tape of a conversation between her and a Washington-area cabdriver--Walter ("Biggie") Brodie--in which she tries to get him to tell the prosecution that Albert had asked...
Obviously there are reasonable restrictions on an employee's freedom of speech. A switchboard operator should not break into Tourette's-like torrents of profanity; likewise, professors probably should be discouraged from screaming at students or presenting their loopier notions as historical fact. But it's hard to see how a Green Bay Packers T shirt could interfere with the stocking of Pop-Tarts or how a union sticker would slow the tightening of a tractor's axle. When employers are free to make arbitrary and humiliating restrictions, we're saying democracy ends, and dictatorship begins, at the factory gate...
...When that switchboard begins lightening up, we will need to be ready with shelters, safe houses and services. We will need well-trained police officers, health professionals, social workers, prosecutors and judges," Shalala said...
...after funding dried up for his research into how the billions of cells that make up the body communicate with one another. Working independently, Rodbell and Dr. Alfred G. Gilman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas discovered that the cells employ a kind of molecular switchboard to sort out incoming chemical and hormonal messages. The switches in this biological telephone system, molecules called G proteins, have since been implicated in everything from diabetes to alcoholism to whooping cough...