Word: networked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year-old Jimmy about his 13-year-old brother, using one of his father's favorite insults. Aides chowed on grilled cheese sandwiches while McCain cycled through a round of radio interviews on the phone. Political strategist Murphy got a call from a network-television source and while on the cell phone held up four fingers and shot a thumb's up. McCain was leading in early exit polls. Aides started celebrating. McCain rushed off the phone. "What? What? What?" he said, his necktie still around his chest from the haircut. When he heard...
...goal is even noble when pursued honestly and patiently. Yet in these marry-a-millionaire times, the pursuit of instant and effortless fortune is being hammered home like never before: state lotteries, legalized gambling, day trading, Internet IPOs and, you guessed it, high-stakes game shows on every network. The message is clear: Patience is for losers; grab your share now. If you can't get past the qualifying round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though you never even needed a lifeline. Trouble is, many of us do need...
...interesting and often painful result of online chatting is the phenomenon of closeted gays and lesbians, who feel trapped by their marriage to straight spouses, freely exploring their sexuality in cyberspace. Much as "Carl" lost his wife to an online boyfriend, many of the spouses in the Straight Spouse Network (an international support network of heterosexual spouses and partners and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender mates) share stories at ssnetwk.org of losing husbands to online boyfriends or wives to online girlfriends. It happens more often than many people imagine. KURT A. BODLING Tuckahoe...
...often asked when I'm going to get married. Most of the people asking are my girlfriend. And to her I say, How are we going to make a marriage work if those people on Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? couldn't? They had an entire television network behind them. All we have is my pushy grandmother...
...seems kind of sexy in its own right. I picture myself, freshly annulled, in a leather jacket and sunglasses, telling Diane Sawyer how the marriage was part of my crazy, impetuous youth. A crazy, impetuous youth, Diane, that could get crazier if you'll marry me right here on network...