Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housebound when not at work. To make sure they comply, each wears a kind of futuristic ball and chain: a 4-oz. radio transmitter that is attached to the ankle with tamperproof plastic straps. The device broadcasts a signal to a receiver hooked up to the wearer's home phone, which in turn relays it to a computer at the probation department. If the wearer strays more than 100 ft., the computer spits out a note for the probation officer...
Buoyed by a phone call from Prime Minister David Lange, two miles of thermofaxed messages from 300,000 fans at home and a dockside war dance by Maori tribesmen, New Zealand got lucky in the third race. Stars & Stripes got off to a lead of 21 seconds, but a halyard shackle popped loose as the boat rounded the second mark, sending its spinnaker flapping into the water. Although his crew cleared the wet sail and hoisted a new sheet in 70 seconds, Conner fell behind and was forced into an exhausting two-hour tacking match in which he came about...
Oral Roberts says God will take his life unless he receives $4.5 million in donations. -- Jerry Falwell is plagued by nuisance phone calls...
While Oral Roberts struggles with budgets, Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell faces a different kind of money pinch. The Lynchburg, Va., televangelist has long used toll-free phone numbers to assist viewers seeking spiritual help. The code-800 exchange has also worked well for fund raising, since those who phone in free are more likely to make pledges...
...many months Falwell foes, aware that each phone-in costs $1, have purposely clogged his lines. First an Atlantan who objects to TV ministers programmed his computer to dial Falwell every 30 seconds. Before Southern Bell stepped in, the stunt cost Falwell $750,000. Then it was homosexual periodicals egging on readers to act against Falwell, an enemy of gay liberation. Late last year the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ran a column advocating "telephone terrorism" and listed the 800 numbers of several targets, including Falwell...