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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intelligence is provided by special switching equipment running new software developed mostly by AT&T. The equipment has made a range of complex phone features available to about half a million homes in at least six states, from Indiana to New Jersey. The services are collectively known as Custom Local-Area Signalling Services, or CLASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franco Zeffirelli in Chinatown and a new Turandot at the Met | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...past eight years, the governor has gone to George Papalimberis at the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle St. for his trademark bushy haircut...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Go to Harvard Sq. for a Duke Cut | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

Reports of his speech were carried by the official Islamic Republic News Agency and Tehran radio and monitored in Nicosia. Iranian television showed him holding an automatic rifle, which has become his custom in Friday prayers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Warned Iran of Invasion | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

...lawyer should receive a traditional Luo tribal burial at his ancestral homeland near Lake Victoria or a Christian interment outside Nairobi. His widow Wambui Otieno initially feared she would be made to shave her head and marry Otieno's younger brother if the burial were held according to Luo custom. While her qualms now appear unfounded, she continues to insist that Luo tribal laws are "out of step with civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: No Way to Rest in Peace | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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