Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allow callers to hear short, taped programs containing information and entertainment such as sports highlights and children's stories, has spawned a burgeoning new industry. Dozens of entrepreneurs across the U.S. are forming businesses to produce and supply telephone companies with a seemingly limitless variety of tapes, from Dial-a-Mystery to Gay News. San Francisco's Megaphone, for example, produces daily 60-sec. updates on ten popular TV soap operas, plus a Michael Jackson tape for fans who want frequent bulletins on what their idol is doing...
What could be more useful for, say, an insurance salesman or an executive recruiter than a major corporation's internal telephone book, complete with direct-dial access and perhaps even everyone's home number? Manhattan Businessman Steven Olsen, 24, thinks there may be gold in them thar numbers. In November his Corporate Information Services will begin selling the directories of 250 companies as a package...
...successful athletes have some kind of sermonette they preach to themselves to get those beneficial chemicals fizzing? Of course they do. Has anyone heard a built-in dial-a-psych like Mike Storm's? Not recently. Storm is a 24-year-old pentathlete from North Arlington, Va., who lives in San Antonio because that is the site of the nation's only pentathlon training center, run by the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Money is no problem; a group of U.S. business men interested in the pentathlon underwrites his training expenses generously enough - about $1,200 a month...
...July 15, Charleston will become the first U.S. city to be technically capable of offering all phone users a choice of long-distance carriers. In August, Alameda, Calif., will become the second city to offer the option. Up to now, only people with Touch-Tone or modified dial phones could use a long-distance company other than A T & T, a technical limitation that excluded the 40% with old-style rotary dials...
...that a whole generation has become addicted to the telephone, using it for everything from courtship to Dial-a-Prayer, a new phenomenon is occurring: the indispensable telephone system is beginning to fail us. The failure seems to have started when the A T & T monopoly was broken apart at the start of this year, or maybe it has just got worse since then. Have you noticed how much longer it takes between the time you finish dialing and the time the first ring comes? Or how often you dial and there's no ring...