Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counter that spiral. In the New York City area, Continence Restored arranges lectures and meetings. HIP (Help for Incontinent People), based in Union, S.C., issues newsletters and audiocassettes; HIP's mention last month in "Dear Abby" drew 90,000 inquiries. The Simon Foundation, beyond offering a newsletter, an 800 phone number and seminars, has put out a book titled Managing Incontinence and a touching, enlightening videocassette called The Solution Starts with...
Bozzotto did not return repeated phone calls to his home last night...
...agent posing as a street hot-dog vendor in a Mafia neighborhood in New York City discovered which public telephone was being used by gangsters to call sources in Sicily about heroin shipments. The phone was quickly tapped, and the evidence it provided has been used in the ongoing "pizza connection" heroin trial against U.S. and Sicilian mobsters...
...news agency Reuters picked up the piece and moved it on the wire. All of a sudden Carl Hunnel's phone began to ring ceaselessly as the press at home and abroad smelled a newsworthy aberration, always the cause of a stampede, especially in August, when Presidents are on holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria...
...Soviet negotiations unless Daniloff is freed. Indeed, the President took a hand in Washington talks between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After the diplomats had met on Friday for two hours and 45 minutes at the State Department, Shultz picked up his private phone to the White House and suggested that he bring Shevardnadze to a meeting with Reagan. Shevardnadze startled the President by handing him a letter from Gorbachev about Reagan's July arms-control proposals; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes had just told reporters the President intended to complain about Soviet unresponsiveness...