Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people hang up when they answer the phone and hear a computerized voice, figuring it is probably a prerecorded sales pitch. Not the folks in Osage, Iowa. Their police department pays for a telephone-dialing computer service that automatically checks up on older people who live alone. At the same time every day, the computer calls them and says, "Good Morning! Are you O.K. ?" If they answer "Yes," the computer hangs up and goes on to the next number. If no one answers, the computer alerts the police...
...sentimentality will not halt the teardown trend. "Not in this town," snorts broker Elaine Young. "Not when you can make $2 million or $3 million." Nor is community spirit likely to prevail. "I like privacy," says one Beverly Hills homeowner, holding his mobile phone and surveying his 30,000-sq.-ft. mansion. "I hear that the people who live down the road are getting a divorce," he advises broker Nelson. "You should look into it. I'll buy it and tear it down. I don't like having a house there...
...passed, the school would be forced to eliminate several programs, including phone calls that monitor school attendance and a teacher-adviser program that introduces ninth graders to high school, said William D. McLaurin, a science teacher at CRLS...
...Your Service last year in Winter Park, Fla. They are typical of the growing number of entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package of hot-dog buns...
Among the tactics Culp's clients are testing: watching less TV, shopping by phone, buying low-maintenance clothes and appliances, screening calls on the answering machine and taking a more lax attitude toward housekeeping. "I'm not so immaculate anymore," Baker-Velasquez explains. "There are spots on the carpet, and things are broken. But I'd rather sacrifice my home than my husband's or children's needs...