Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...required to offer AT&T rivals equal-quality access to the local phone system. That particularly appealed to a competitor like MCI Communications Corp. Said a jubilant MCI Chairman William McGowan: "To use our alternative long-distance service now, the customer must have a push-button phone and dial 22 digits. Those requirements should disappear and make competition more real...
...months ago, shortly after he was assigned to the Press section, Henry and Senior Editor Stephen Smith began to consider a cover story on Communications Mogul Ted Turner. Recalls Henry: "The first thing I did was go to my office and turn on the TV, switch the dial to Turner's Cable News Network and start watching." He finds CNN soothing: "When you're in the middle of some ordeal analyzing breaking news, and you feel your perspective slipping away, and then you watch someone else react to the same news, it snaps you up and reassures...
...Dial; 500 pages...
...young man, Mumford dreamed of a career in the theater and wrote a couple of unproduced plays. He became, instead, an editor and contributor for the Dial, an important literary and political journal of the interwar period, and married a fellow staff member, the independent-minded Sophia Wittenberg of Brooklyn. (Sixty years later, he still offers sonnets to her.) Mumford took up the study of cities in earnest after a stint at a municipal job in Pittsburgh. A 1929 book on Herman Melville established him as a literary critic, and his 1938 The Culture of Cities made him a national...
...meet each other." The Voyce, which is a computer at Softwork headquarters, explains that it will compile a résumé for the caller if he answers the robot's questions by pushing the proper buttons on a touch-tone phone. If the caller is using a dial phone, the Voyce tells him that it cannot hear his answers. A sample question: "Are you presently a student or a worker? Enter one if student, two if worker." The machine uses the answers to produce a resume, which Softwork sends to employers. Softwork President Joel Mannion thinks that...