Word: dials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maybe the Postal Service is on to something. The results of the election will be announced in May, but don't you dare touch that dial. The King was always known for his encores...
...created the G.L.S.A. Audiotext Hotline, "an automated service designed for people of all sexual orientations: straight, gay, bisexual and unsure." You dial up the G.L.S.A. computer (617-495-6100) and, in total anonymity, choose from a menu of more than 100 brief prerecorded messages -- everything from "What causes people to be gay?" and "Can a gay person be changed into a heterosexual?" to your choice of 12 "Common myths about homosexuality," a directory of counseling services and the policies of 11 different religious denominations toward gay issues. (Now don't all call at once...
...want every student to have a dial tone when they get to their room," Wise said...
Whatever the truth of that assertion, technological advances have taken a heavy toll on U.S. telephone operators over the years. Their number has dwindled from nearly 250,000 to just 70,000 since AT&T introduced direct-dial long-distance service in the early 1950s...
...prodded by its chairman, Alfred Sikes, has proposed a more sweeping set of rules -- which it may enact later this year -- allowing phone companies to provide a "video dial tone" that would allow people in effect to attach their television sets to their phone lines and call up shows they want to watch...