Last week the most listened-to woman in radio, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, in what she has said was an attempt to make a "philosophical point, " used the N-word 11 times during a call-in segment.

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As word-spotting systems spread, call-centre training schools have started coaching students in gaming the system so they look good under the additional scrutiny.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

For each of the next few days, they received a recorded call from the 800 number with word about the progress -- or lack thereof -- aboard the Triumph.

CNN: Drinking beer and waiting for their women to come home

During a 1, 018-word opening statement Sunday, on a conference call to explain why he had traded Revis to Tampa Bay, Jets general manager John Idzik turned a phrase that cut like a thunderbolt through his otherwise cloudy monologue.

WSJ: Why the Jets Had to Jettison Revis

To defend this call for intra-Israeli instability and violence, Mitchell notes that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave his word to former president George W. Bush that he would destroy these communities.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Entrapping Netanyahu

Word on the Water is a floating second-hand bookshop owned by three men who call themselves "The Doctor", "The Professor" and "The Captain".

BBC: Boutiques barge into the Olympics

Even before the prime minister has uttered a word of his long-awaited speech on Europe - a speech in which he is expected to call for a re-negotiation of the UK's relationship with the EU followed by a referendum - David Cameron is being warned about the consequences.

BBC: US official's comments illustrate Cameron's EU dilemma