Word: mail
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...apparent boost last week when Governor George Deukmejian announced that the state had an unanticipated tax windfall of $2.5 billion, as much as $228 million of which may eventually trickle down to the Los Angeles Unified School District, if the state legislature approves. No check is in the mail...
...also thinks that Archbishop Tutu should stop complaining and give back his diploma. "The guy really gets on my nerves," he says. "Mail it back tomorrow. I'll pay for the postage...
...everybody else, had better get used to. The U.S., and much of the world, is in the midst of a sweeping technological conversion, replacing human secretaries and operators with a new kind of high-tech wizardry known variously as automated answering systems, voice-messaging units or, most simply, voice mail. In the past six years, tens of thousands of voice-messaging systems have been installed in stores, offices and government agencies. The units answer phones, route callers and dispense information ranging from baseball scores and movie reviews to weather reports and horoscopes. Even the Vatican has a voice-mail system...
TECHNOLOGY: "Hello! This is voice mail speaking...
Limited editions are in particular demand. Edd Roush, a .323-lifetime hitter with Cincinnati and the Giants during the '20s, died last year at 94. His final days were put to use keeping up with a mail-order frenzy for his trembling signature...