Word: beeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indianapolis -- A would-be drug user was nabbed in June after inadvertently dialing a police detective instead of his drug dealer's beeper. The detective played along with the conversation and later busted the caller after posing as his supplier's associate...
...raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...
...recent memo, Trifiro instructed her staffthat if they are unable to contact her on herradio, phone, or beeper, they should referinquiries to one of their supervisors...
...name travels fast. I have a beeper, which has become a valuable asset," Adomanis says...
...Ulster peace feelers notwithstanding, the City of London has devised a plan to foil I.R.A. terrorists, who have made the financial center a favorite target. Beginning immmediately, British Telecommunications expects to rent some 5,000 pocket pagers to braodcast police bomb alerts. The beeper units, which have a small screen display to give the location of a suspected explosive, will cost about $37.50 quarterly...