Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once mastered, the computer phones can perform a variety of functions at the touch of a button or two. These jobs include: transferring a call to another extension, automatically placing a call at a set time, notifying the user when a previously dialed busy line becomes free, intercepting calls going to another extension, programming the phone so that frequently called numbers can be stored and then activated by using a three-digit number, and automatically redialing a previous call to the outside...
This may sound like touch-tone utopia, but in reality Murphy's Law prevails. Computer breakdowns and mistakes in programming commonly cause problems. The software bugs that may linger for many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray, a Texas-based communications firm that was acquired last year by Canada's Northern Telecom, installed a PBX system two months ago at AMF headquarters in White Plains, N. Y. Reports one AMF employee: "The new system has its problems. We have trouble with connections, and quite often calls...
...midtown Manhattan that he has not visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There's also always something to do for his son Ari, 13. Says Abramson: "Living here for kids is a real learning experience. They have to learn...
Crimson freshman Jack Gauthier led the race from the start, but was forced to take a short, extra stroke at the finish, allowing Kone to touch first...
Because of the Tigers' awesome showing in the 200, it appeared impossible that anyone would touch them in the day's final event, the 800-yd. freestyle relay. No other team had placed more than two swimmers in the top sixteen in the 200, and Princeton had four of the top eight...