Word: harrisburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots like James Watt can collect $400,000 for a few phone calls to HUD, why shouldn't a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle get a few thousand for lobbying top officials face to face? That may have been the reasoning of Larry R. Smith, a Harrisburg, Ill., free-lance writer who received an invitation from George Bush to join the circle and submitted a $1,000 membership...
...most clubs. Case in point: North Carolina's Durham Bulls, the Class A farm club of the Atlanta Braves featured in Bull Durham. Durham Businessman Miles Wolff bought the hapless Bulls for $2,500 in 1979. Today the team would sell for about $1 million. The Class AA Harrisburg Senators of Pennsylvania were unloaded for $45,000 in 1980 and are currently valued at some $1.5 million. Ten years ago, even Triple A clubs could be picked up for $50,000. Now they are worth between $2 million and $5 million...
...columnist, was quoting Thucydides in the original Greek to argue that the 13 states needed the firm hand of a minor German princeling as monarch to quell "the unseemly clamor of mobocracy." A gossip item on the entertainment page provided Madison with his only chuckle of the morning: a Harrisburg film producer claimed to have signed Ben Franklin to portray God in an upcoming comedy...
Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...
...pest of a salesman, the owner can direct the phone to generate a recorded message -- some version of "I'm sorry, the party you have dialed is not accepting your call at this time" -- whenever someone on the list tries to get through. Jeffrey Lipman, 35, a pharmacist in Harrisburg, Pa., has combined call blocking with another feature, known as distinctive ringing, which signals calls from selected numbers by trilling with a special tone. Now he can be sure to take calls from local hospitals and nursing homes -- his biggest customers -- while screening out those from certain pharmaceutical salesmen. Cost...