Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard police patrolling Harvard Square find four drunk, apparently homeless people on the Holyoke Center grates. After a computer check, officers learn one of the men faces an arrest warrant in Barnstable, Mass. The 41-year-old is handcuffed and taken to a waiting cruiser...
...balance. Instead of the familiar human teller, she was answered by a computer-generated voice that told all callers with Touch-Tone phones to "press 1 now," thus beginning a series of steps that would eventually lead to her balance. When she called the IRS about an overdue tax check, another computer voice directed her to "push 9" for refunds. Even a local department store had acquired a robot operator, which like an overeager clerk insisted on taking Hiwot on a guided tour of the entire store ("For furniture, home decorating or major appliances, push 3"). Desperate for human contact...
...answering machine had provided Rob with hours of entertainment. He loved to make up cute messages, and my personal favorite was the one that went, "Hello? [five second pause] Hold on, I'll check. [five more seconds] Sorry, he's not here, but NEITHER ARE WE! [hysterical laughing] So please leave a message." Unoriginal as it may be, that one received some priceless replies. However, we changed the message pretty soon...
...greatest reversal since Serutan, DiMaggio brought a baseball to a White House dinner last year, when Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting President Reagan, and acquired their autographs for free. "Reagan's is very precise," says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn Monroe. "Gorbachev signed it the way a doctor writes a prescription. In my whole life, that's the only time I ever asked anybody to sign a ball...
Automated reservation systems are vast computer networks that the major carriers, notably American and United, use to dish out the most up-to-date flight information to travel agents. When linked to the systems, agents can check schedules, compare fares and book tickets. They can also make hotel and rental-car reservations as well as order tickets for Broadway shows or charter a private...