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...popular wisdom, held by amateur electricians and some retail electronics dealers, is that the company checks for variations in voltage on the lines. They say that if the bell on an extension is not connected, the company can't detect the violation...
Recently, however, Fischer has begun to detect signs of improvement. "Before Watergate, people in the White House frequently refused to make appointments and often neglected to return phone calls." Today, Fischer happily finds that such Nixon advisers as Alexander Haig, Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow "are aware of the dangers of White House isolation in a way that Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman never understood...
...three-story white villa in Zu rich's discreet residential district of Hongg is surrounded by electronic devices to detect intruders. As visitors walk from the iron gate to the front door through terraced gardens, they may notice that the burly man water ing the petunias has a revolver stuck in his jeans. They may also see a cheetah and hear the growls, if not feel the breath, of two lion-sized Great Danes...
...that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands. One capital resident said last week: "It used to be that you paid an official to do something that he was not supposed to do. Now you pay him just to do the job that he is supposed to do." Cynical Indians detect one ray of hope: because so many officials are taking bribes, they are competing against each other and lowering prices in the buyer's favor...
...city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...