Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the Harvard administration will adopt rules that help students, not impose barriers that must be creatively surpassed. The burden for solving this problem now rests on the freshmen themselves. The freshman class must stand up for themselves--they must register complaints in all forms: direct person contact, phone calls, and letters to the Freshman Dean's office. They must show that they care; it is too easy to restrict the rights of the apathetic. Treasurer, Civil Liberties Union of Harvard
...from the new regime. At first, the coup caught many Haitians, including the main opposition groups, by surprise. But as mutinous troops arrested commander after commander, a strange civilian counterpart to the revolt began to take place in key state corporations. Top officials of the water, electricity and phone companies were told by their staffs that they were no longer in charge. The governor of the Central Bank, Onill Millet, was "fired" by his employees and thrown out of the building...
...room dominated by two large U.S. maps dotted with pins marking the movements of Bush, Dan Quayle, Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. His desk is a conference table that seats twelve and is stacked with Baker's ubiquitous "things to do" lists. He makes or takes up to 100 phone calls a day, speaking with Bush about 16 times. His only break comes with a lunch of cottage cheese and tuna with Tabasco sauce. Once an avid ham-and-eggs man, Baker now watches his cholesterol...
...soul baring goes on and on, recorded in 60-second messages to the Apology Sound-Off Line, a Los Angeles-based telephone service that offers the catharsis of confession for the price of a phone call. The service, started up this summer by a Los Angeles outfit called United Communications, receives some 200 anonymous calls a day from people admitting everything from marital infidelity to murder. "They are gut-wrenchingly honest," says apology-line operator M.J. Denton. But that's just for starters. On another number, callers pay $2 for the first minute and 45 cents a minute after that...
Admissions of taboo, often criminal behavior pose a more serious dilemma. In fact, the line has become a repository for confessions of rape, incest, child sexual abuse and murder. The phone company's sole restriction is a ban on playing back such calls to other callers. "I just stabbed my wife and two daughters," one man screamed into the phone. "I buried my wife and daughter in the backyard. My other daughter is buried under the pier." The Los Angeles police, who do not monitor the line, say that it is up to the operators to report likely crimes...