Word: talked
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Trade negotiations? Oh, please--wake us when it's over. Tariffs. Subsidies. Antidumping measures. Multilateral investment agreements. The eyes glaze over. Even free trade's First Cheerleader, Bill Clinton, confesses that most people think the World Trade Organization is "some rich guys' club where people get in, talk in funny language and make a bunch of rules that help the people that already have and stick it to the people that have...
...voice file, which you then play back through your PC speakers. A small banner on your screen alerts you to incoming calls and lets you store and delete messages. I tried the service several times, and it worked fine except for one problem: I couldn't talk to anybody unless I logged off and dialed them back. It's fun to screen calls, but my friends report that the shameless self-promotion in Callwave's voice-mail greeting gets tired really fast...
Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year...
...many other small-business owners, talk about building a new Oracle, pro or con, sounds roughly as relevant as chatter about a space cruise to Pluto. They consider mergers and acquisitions the only way not just to grow but sometimes even to stay afloat...
Happily, not many geeks in the know are betting on a real-life replay of NBC's nightmare scenario. Talk to the software engineers, the ones who have been wading knee-deep in the raw computer code for some time now, and you'll find they are hardly planning to head for the hills. "I have no stockpile of water at home and no generator," says Microsoft's Y2K director Don Jones, "and I have a nine-month-old son. My wife says, 'Shouldn't we at least do a little something?'" Only as much as you'd prepare...