Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grandma never forgot to bring her notorious cowbell, which she rang whenever Columbia did anything good. Other fans had only to hear the bell to know that she was at the game...
...member body last Tuesday placed Greg H. Williams '88 on disciplinary probation for the rest of the year for telephoning a Black student sitting at the Currier House bell desk...
Though nine big operators -- the seven regional Bell companies, Reuben H. Donnelley and GTE Directories -- accounted for more than 90% of the industry's estimated $7.4 billion in advertising revenues last year, about 200 other ( publishers now produce their own brands of Yellow Pages. Many companies buy listings in more than one telephone book to make sure that potential customers see their display ads. As a result, the Yellow Pages is one of the fastest growing advertising media...
...doctors, factories and other commercial listings. Since neither the name Yellow Pages nor the walking-fingers symbol is a protected trademark (they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names in order to stand out from the crowd. GTE, for example, publishes 51 editions of the Neighborhood Phone Book. Nobody knows which editions consumers use the most when they are faced with a choice, but industry-wide...
...largest and most aggressive directory publishers is St. Louis- based Southwestern Bell. The company puts out 1,100 Yellow Pages editions in 48 states and has launched major invasions of the Manhattan, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago markets. In Manhattan, Southwestern Bell has taken on NYNEX, the giant holding company for the New York and New England telephone companies. Since last year, more than 1 million copies of Southwestern's New York Yellow Pages have been distributed. The 816-page book is a more compact alternative to the listings contained in two separate NYNEX Yellow Pages directories -- the consumer version...