Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which leaves first-years with many people they can wave to in the Yard, but not necessarily people they would call close friends...
...romantic reminder of how people and nature once harmoniously co-existed in Florida. "My son is studying to be a biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house--a furnished, air-conditioned "hunt camp" he calls the Fontainebleau--sits above alligator nests deep in the Everglades, southwest of Boca Raton, accessible only by airboat. "People can call us swamp rats and rednecks all they want," says Hinsley's neighbor Don Kirk, 59, "but folks are supporting us because most of them live on top of asphalt today...
Experts who follow this emerging business-to-business electronic-commerce market call it frictionless, because no faxes, phone calls or paper trails snake back and forth to clog the communications channel between buyer and seller. That is just one aspect of these new wholesale channels that has analysts salivating. B2B companies "are going to reshape the entire economy," says Charles Finnie of Volpe Brown Whelan & Co., an investment-banking firm based in San Francisco. "It's not unlikely that Mr. Greenspan will be sitting in front of Congress in the next couple of years saying one of the main reasons...
...recent months, Alabama, Oregon, Louisiana and Tennessee joined the other states that maintain "do not call" lists that consumers can join and telemarketers must obey. Companies that ignore these no-call lists can pay a high price. In May, Georgia's consumer-affairs office fined TruGreen/Chemlawn $45,000 for repeated violations. In states such as Arkansas and Florida, consumers pay nominal fees to join the lists, and companies pay a few dollars for copies. "It's duplicative, and it's expensive," argues Stephen Altobelli, spokesman for the Direct Marketing Association, says of the state lists. The group maintains a nationwide...
...federal and state no-call rules exempt so many callers--nonprofits, political parties, pollsters and certain businesses such as newspapers or Realtors--that Kentucky warns those who join its list that "approximately 95% of callers will still be able to call you." These loopholes also invite companies to team up with or pose as charities. To fight such scams, Arizona requires telemarketers to register with the state or face fines...