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...addition, Margulies said that the University has added a 496 exchange--formerly used on Cape Cod--because the 495 prefix has reached its capacity...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Centrex Telephone System Being Replaced | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...time of day in 1928 and the weather report in 1937. The company added Dial-a-Joke in 1974 and a recorded Santa Claus message the following year. But no one made money on the announcements until 1980, when AT&T launched its Dial-It service. The 900-prefix, long- distance lines enabled callers to participate in automated polls, typically sponsored by TV shows, for 50 cents for the first minute. Initially AT&T pocketed all the toll charges, but in 1985 the company began sharing the proceeds with smaller companies that operated the information services. The arrangement sparked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Ever Said Talk Was Cheap? | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...nouveau ecriture, is for Dualism, Deconstruction, Dissemination, and of course, Derrida. And when Junior begins to put letters together to form a word (which we now call a logos), he has a whole new set of challenges ahead of him. For difference is now spelled differance, while the prefix 'meta' opens infinite new realms of meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...reminder sent to all seniors, the Yearbook misprinted the prefix of its phone number--prompting seniors to call Hegeman and Lui at their 498 number rather than the Yearbook's 495 number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Seniors' Phone Rings Off Hook | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

Comedy, social commentary--call it what you will--Joshua is mediocre schlock Schlockhas many relatives, easily understood by attaching a prefix to define precisely the derived form's relationship to the tradition. I cite several of the most exemplary: rock-schlock (Spinal Tap), cock-schlock (Porky's has this covered) and lock-schlock (prison classics like the oh-so-shameful The Longest Yard...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Not So Good Schlock | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

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