Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vorenberg dismissed five BLSA demands thatcalled on the school to meet specific minorityhiring goals--including the appointment ofProfessor of Law Derrick Bell as Vorenberg'ssuccessor--saying in a statement that "mattersrelating to specific faculty appointments areconfidential and could not be discussed...
Since a Mother's Day fire destroyed a major Illinois Bell switching station west of Chicago, 35,000 people have learned how inconvenient and nearly unmanageable modern life can be without phones. Fax machines went down. Credit-card verification systems blinked out. Automatic cash machines popped up electronic apologies: OUT OF SERVICE. Houses were not sold, dental appointments not made, pizza not ordered...
...week's end, service had been restored to most of the affected area. Illinois Bell announced that it had reconnected at least limited phone service to all but a few hundred customers. The company promised to replace the switching equipment in Hinsdale completely by mid-June. That was not enough for Attorney General Neil Hartigan, who filed a petition with the state commerce commission demanding compensation of telephone customers affected by the outage. Declared Hartigan: "Illinois Bell owes these people some relief, and it owes the public at large some answers...
...Hinsdale telephone system could go down so easily, some wondered just how vulnerable other crucial communications hubs around the country might be. Without Ma Bell, Hinsdale discovered, a community can quickly become an orphan of the electronic...
Appointing Bell as Dean...