Word: beeper
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...astronomer originally started out in 1986 to find a 75-cent accounting error in his computer system. When he found that the extra charge was due to a mysterious hacker who had tapped into his system, he rigged his computer so that an electronic beeper would sound every time a hacker entered the system...
...life is out of his control. Lulu takes him on a joy ride which ends with a kinky afternoon in a cheap motel. She is mysterious and exciting, his free-spirited fantasy. She somehow knows that he's "a closet rebel" and takes the liberty of tossing his office beeper out the window...
...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...
Inexpensive ($10 to $60 monthly to lease), easy-to-acquire beeper services allow street-smart drug dealers to keep in touch by public telephone. By staying mobile, dealers can remain one step ahead of the police or rivals who might be hunting for them. These days, with drugs moving by land, sea and air, the paging device is likely to turn up anywhere. "It's not uncommon for pagers to wash up onshore," concedes Ann Director of the Telocator Network of America, the Washington trade association that represents radio common carriers. Nor is it that unusual for beepers...
...return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...