Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urgent all-points bulletin is broadcast over the police radio frequency. Two men in Brookline, one wielding a meat cleaver, have robbed a man and fled on bicycles. The pair then stashed the bikes in a black sports car and drove away. Harvard police hear the report over their police scanners, but since there are no reports that the two are headed to Cambridge, the police know they are unlikely to encounter them...
...Roll call for the graveyard shift, on duty until 8 a.m., is convened in the basement of the Harvard police station at 29 Garden St. Officers who worked the afternoon prepare to head home. Three patrolmen arriving on-duty hear a rundown of the day's and night's incidents. A special weekend "power" shift helps to cover the territory during the switchover...
...formats and course offerings are as varied as the sponsors, which include federal and state governments, universities, public-television stations and commercial networks. Unlike Whittle Communications' Channel One, however, which beams news and ads into schools on regular television, the electronic classroom enables instructors and pupils to hear and interact with one another much as they would in any normal setting. But the visuals are still one-way: students can see the teacher, but not vice versa...
...experiences this year were adverse. Another roommate recalls having a discussion about abortion with a friend located close to Memorial Hall. Since our phone was as just as good as the next one at picking up WHRB while it was broadcasting a football game, my roommate was gratified to hear cheering crowds right after he had made his "big point." The most interference of all, however, results from calling the Quad. Maybe the cosmic background radiation is the problem there, AT&T engineers would tell...
...weeks I'll be home. We have a brown AT&T phone there, too. But it works perfectly, always getting connected right where it's supposed to when it's supposed to. It has a long cord that stretches to wherever I want to go. And you could hear a pin drop through the line, if one ever fell. We don't even own an answering machine at home...