Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could exchange addresses and phone numbers. It could be a final mixing. We will all get together at Commencement, but that's a little to late. It's not really a hassle, because you can always go to Elsie's and get some food...
...April, though, I began to realize that theperfunctory once-a-month phone calls were becomingmore frequent and more substantive. As we werefacing the future, my old friends and I wereinstinctively reaching back into the past...
...week's end, service had been restored to most of the affected area. Illinois Bell announced that it had reconnected at least limited phone service to all but a few hundred customers. The company promised to replace the switching equipment in Hinsdale completely by mid-June. That was not enough for Attorney General Neil Hartigan, who filed a petition with the state commerce commission demanding compensation of telephone customers affected by the outage. Declared Hartigan: "Illinois Bell owes these people some relief, and it owes the public at large some answers...
...posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags, claiming it violated the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable searches and seizures...
...agencies readily admit that they can learn a lot about a person by examining household garbage. Both the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration regularly engage in trash searches, as do many police departments. "People throw away all kinds of things," observes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation. "Phone numbers, trace evidence, bank statements -- you'd be amazed." Most lower courts that have reviewed police trash searches have given them the green light, and now that the high bench has done the same, more detectives can be expected to prowl through refuse...