Fisher, meanwhile, previously worked as CTO at K2 Media Labs, director of engineering at Lime Wire, and manager of technology at Wired.com.
Every major newspaper editor, wire service manager or network news president heard it loud and clear: Stay away.
Part of this inspired lexicon -- source of such vivid verbs as eyeball and upstick -- is the full text of the Phillips Code, compiled in 1879 by Walter Phillips, a telegrapher and wire-service manager who worked for both The Associated Press and United Press International.
"Throughout the entire 26 square miles of the city, streets are littered with trees and tree limbs, downed power lines and wires," Pasadena City Manager Michael Beck said in an interview in the basement of City Hall.
I will wire my road manager — they're in Canton, Ohio — and see what I can find out".
"It is unbelievable, we took it right to the wire," said Carrick manager Gary Haveron.
(He is serving a 27-year prison sentence for 86 counts of financial fraud, including money laundering and bank, mail and wire fraud. Other managers received prison sentences for bank fraud and helping immigrants get false work papers). The same month Rubashkin was arrested, a bank began foreclosing on the plant, and the company suspended hundreds of employees without pay.
"Just like human babies, they're really vulnerable when they're young," said Wires rescue office manager Kristie Harris.
For "The 15th," a Wire song, a stage manager character carried around stiff dancers like dummies.
