Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT OTHER CALLS USING YOUR MCI SERVICE. 914-937-0353 THE SAME WAY YOU DIAL ALL FOR EMERGENCY SERVICE CALL...
...rolling along in the opposite direction. Dollar Rent a Car announced last week that it will put 6,000 phone-equipped cars on the road by May. Dollar hopes to attract business with a new phone service called Pathfinder. When driving in unfamiliar places, customers will be able to dial a single digit and reach a Dollar operator, who will consult a battery of maps and give directions. Budget Rent a Car will soon equip a fleet of 1,500 autos with portable phones that can be operated outside the car and are small enough to fit inside a customer...
...shaped around themes that pull audience response, dramatic personal stories of life-changing events, and toe-tapping music. But broader cultural forces are surely at work. "Everybody thinks the TV preacher is doing a number on people," says Armstrong, "but it's the viewer with his hand on the dial who controls the system." People who hope TV Gospel will fade when today's stars are gone, says Armstrong, "do not understand that the real key is grass-roots people, dying for personal religion and traditional values...
...Calif. (pop. 41,000), in Los Angeles County. City officials have hired private firms to run the parks and recreation department, perform public-works inspections, provide day-care services and remove graffiti from public buildings. Mass transit in the form of comfortable vans is supplied by a company called Dial-A-Ride. Says La Mirada City Manager Gary Sloan: "In some areas, privatization has been the most efficient, cost-effective way of providing service...
...garbage. I hate him. When he hit my back, he took my jacket and put it over my head, and banged me against the floor. After that I thought he was finished hitting me, but yesterday he said he was going to step on my face. You want to dial the cops, but you can't. I never talk about him to my boyfriend. I didn't even want to talk to Geraldine at first. I didn't like her at first. I liked Mary Paul better. I thought Geraldine, you know, wanted too much. Then I wrote her letters...