Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Sample says he plans to balance his interests by playing the piano, planning for medical school, and meeting everybody interesting in Detroit. When it comes time to pick up the medical books, he may end up studying at the piano while talking on the phone...
...noted civil rights lawyer said he had"received dozens of phone calls" from alumni who,in light of the Globe piece, were disturbed byHarvard's decision to name von Weizsacker as theCommencement speaker...
Disposable razors have long been a consumer staple, and throwaway cameras are a new photographic fad. Now the latest items to use and lose are telephones. Several companies, including Mini-Phone, Diversified Communications and International Connectors, are selling an estimated 100,000 lightweight, disposable phones a year, and the market is growing fast. The best customers are not individuals but hospitals, which sell the phones to patients as a moneymaking venture...
Health-care institutions pay a manufacturer about $9 a phone, then charge patients about $12 to use the instrument during their stay. And since many patients formerly walked off with standard-issue phones (average price: $75), the theft of a disposable phone is less costly. Says Kendall Gallagher, a Mini-Phone vice president: "A patient confronted with a hospital bill might feel he's entitled to everything in the room, including the phone." Philadelphia's Mercy Catholic Medical Center estimates that it saves between $50,000 and $75,000 a year by installing the discardable devices. Indeed, they have proved...
...this were 1776," he says, "we'd be pouring tea into the Fort Lauderdale harbor." Instead, opponents have been pouring antitax messages into Martinez's political bailiwick. The Florida Association of Broadcasters has produced a 30-second television commercial attacking the tax as inflationary and providing the Governor's phone number for citizens who would like to complain personally. In addition, a number of media companies, including NBC, CBS and Time Inc., have canceled plans to hold conferences and conventions in Florida as long as the law is on the books. Several major national advertisers have removed ads from publications...