Word: touche
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...purse to beep, reminding her that it is time to go home. The elder Grenewalds also take the beeper along on their frequent trips to New York City. Says Susan Grenewald: "The kids can just buzz us if anything important happens. It means we're all in touch as a family...
Like the Grenewalds, more and more Americans are using the air waves to stay in touch. Improved technology and falling prices have made such pagers or beepers cheaper and easier to use. In contrast to the unwieldy $340 versions of a decade ago, 1983 models slide into a pocket and cost less than $100. Manufacturers who once concentrated on serving business clients are now rushing to establish a beachhead in the consumer market...
Beepers seem destined to become the most popular portable electronic devices since the Sony Walkman. Apart from teenagers, who would just as soon not stay in touch with their parents, the potential market is huge. The Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc. estimates that by 1990, 7 million beepers may be in use, compared with 2.5 million today. By the end of the decade, annual sales could reach $86 million and revenues from fees $2.8 billion...
Some experts worry about the strain of staying in touch 24 hours a day. Marilyn Komechak, a Fort Worth psychologist who has clinically studied stress, believes that prolonged use of beepers produces anxiety and probably high blood pressure. "I have never seen anyone respond to a beep with a smile or a less than strident comment," she says...
...piece of paper documenting their part ownership of a shopping mall in the next state or an oil-drilling site half a continent away. But for some 30 investors with a special sense of romance-and risk-the payoff from an unusual Florida operation was the kind they could touch, even fondle: silver ingots the size of paving blocks, gold chains, gold bars, fistfuls of gold and silver coins, a coral-encrusted anchor, a bronze cannon, an emerald ring-all lost at sea 361 years...