Word: beeper
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...December rape at the Science Center has met with the addition of just one extra afternoon security guard. The Science Center has no beeper or alarm system for its workers or its students. Public telephones are located only on the basement floor of the building. The worker or student in the Science Center is hardly safer now than at the time of the rape...
...Pretty neat, huh?," says VanDyke, as he explains how the equipment is used. "We have the [sashes] as well as SafeStreets' identification so that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...
...quiet night. Bell decides to go downstairs to play Continuum on the Science Center computers. He takes a beeper with him. The phone sits quietly on the floor under the harsh light of a flickering flourescent...
...Bell returns from downstairs. He had switched video games--from Continuum to Dark Castle. "Addictive stuff," he says. Bell and VanDyke decide to leave the office on a quest for food, making sure to carry a beeper with them...
Shinkaretsky, who works for state-run Gosteleradio, has no private office, no producer, no staff. His only status symbol: a beeper that he carries in his shirt pocket. When it flashes the number 6, he knows to call Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's deputy mayor and the official in charge of the city food supply. "We're in cahoots," Shinkaretsky says, and winks...