Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern as it is, though, the Deere factory can hardly compare with the frontier-breaching printed-circuit-board plant of AT&T Technologies in Richmond, Va. There computers receive complex instructions from a dozen Bell Laboratories design centers scattered throughout the U.S. The instructions are then used to turn out on demand a limitless variety of circuit boards containing hundreds of parts. The operation is so smooth that AT&T can change designs overnight without interrupting production...
Some 50 million Americans carry telephone credit cards. More than 47 million have been issued by American Telephone & Telegraph, which operates the long-distance lines that used to be part of the Bell system. The rest have been put out by competitors like MCI. Each AT&T card is supposed to be protected from abuse by a four-digit personal identification number that only the user and the company know. Someone using the card must give both his phone and the identification numbers. But anyone who finds or steals a card, or overhears the numbers being read to an operator...
...there wasn't a break. If for some sick reason you had not only to do well, but make sure you were in the top 10 percent of the class, maybe stealing the lab books wasn't such a bad idea. The course was graded on an almost perfect bell curve: about 10 percent got some kind of an A and about 10 percent making it to the end still flunked...
This age group is relatively fortunate, however; it escapes blame--by a margin of several babysitters--for the Nehru collar, Bell Bottoms, paper dresses, peace symbol neckties, and chalk-white lipstick...
That's when the bell tolls for Bunney's challengers, and when he takes charge of all action and entertainment...