Word: fax
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...Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words--One footnote to the Dartmouth story: In the spirit of a free press, Shim said he would be kind enough to fax The Crimson vital information about Freedman's candidacy. Shim subsequently faxed over a photograph of a naked woman apparently taken from a recent issue of Playboy. Good to see The Review is upholding its commitment to high quality journalism...
Bush and his fellow travelers may be defining the way the world will be run in these next decades: frequent gatherings of heads of state; a plethora of councils and conferences linked in the off-hours by phone, fax and video; an army of bureaucrats below constantly moving around the network with plans and ideas. But a number of people wonder if the leaders are traveling a bit too much for their own good. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's tenuous hold on her job may have finally loosened while she was in Paris. Gorbachev's junketing, while helping...
Already, 180,000 businesses use automatic-dialing systems to deliver pre- recorded sales pitches to as many as 7 million people each day, according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and 2 million U.S. offices employ fax machines to transmit more than 30 billion pages of information -- much of it unsolicited -- per year...
...fire stations and emergency rooms, which the dialers can reach unintentionally. What irks people most is having to pay for solicitations they never asked for. Those with car phones and pagers are charged for every minute they use a telephone line, whether or not they initiated the call, and fax-machine owners pay up to 10 cents a sheet for the special paper the machines use to print out messages, including ones they did not request...
More than a dozen states have passed legislation to stem the electronic barrage. Some versions ban or restrict the hours in which automatic dialers can be used. Others -- notably Connecticut, Florida, Maryland and Oregon -- prohibit unsolicited fax-machine advertisements outright. Constitutional lawyers argue that fax bans might violate the senders' free-speech rights, but Congress may take action. Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts is sponsoring a bill that would make it illegal to send fax solicitations or automatically dialed, prerecorded phone pitches to people who have notified a clearinghouse that they do not want them. The White House says...