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Word: phone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...thereafter it was jubilant as, at 2:15 a.m., Florida was called for Bush and the Governor became, in the eyes of the networks and the nation, the President-elect. He hugged his dad, kissed his mom and embraced his drained and relieved brother. Then he took the congratulatory phone call from Vice President Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in The Nation | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno was in phone negotiations with the family, having already put in motion a raid to seize Elian. At 5 a.m. federal agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through the house. The boy was found in the arms of Donato Dalrymple, one of his fisherman rescuers, and was taken without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in The Nation | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...highways, were open to everyone, making "open access" to the two companies' cable and Internet services the price of approval. Case and Levin agreed to allow at least three other Internet service providers access to Time Warner cable lines and decreed that AOL would continue to invest in slower, phone-based DSL service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For AOLTW | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Your Child foundation. He was polishing off his lemon tart when word came that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling was imminent. They flipped on CNN in the dining room, and Reiner watched transfixed with Tipper and three of the children while Gore got on the phone for a conference call with his lawyers. "There we were getting the opinion, slow page by slow page over the fax machine, as CNN was reporting on us getting the opinion. It was The Truman Show." At first, Reiner said, Gore was encouraged that while there was an equal-protection problem, it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save The Last Dance For Me | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...able to sense tremors and other signs of stress in a prevaricator's voice. The Handy Truster comes in several colors, and its South Korean manufacturer, 911 Computer, insists that it's just for fun. (The pitch: "Enjoy the truth game with your colleagues!") It also works via cell phone for remote or uncooperative subjects. Don't hang up the lasso just yet, though. Handy Truster promises to catch only 8 lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 25, 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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