Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Convention service charges" on all equipment being installed by the New York Telephone Company. Thus, a six-button phone that normally costs $29 is $127; a switchboard that is ordinarily $542 is $1,161; a unit that cost one major user less than $4,000 in Miami, and will be $5,000 in Kansas City, is $7,000 in New York City...
Suicide Talk. After swallowing that defeat, Hays returned to his lavishly furnished farmhouse in Belmont County, Ohio, late Wednesday night and took an undetermined amount of Dalmane. The next morning his wife Pat could not rouse him. He was rushed to an intensive care unit by ambulance. At first, Phillips insisted that the weakened Hays, who is 65, had merely overreacted to a Dalmane pill. After the patient was out of danger, the doctor had another reading: "There is no question that he overdosed, but to say whether it was accidental or purposeful at this time would be pure speculation...
...organizations all quickly deplored Coco's murder, but they also projected it into the increasingly hectic election campaign. Premier Aldo Moro, stumping for the Christian Democrats, deplored "a grave disturbance at a delicate electoral moment." The Communists, by means of a statement in the party newspaper L'Unità, protested that such "ferocious criminality" was meant to prevent Italians from making "new choices to bring Italy out of its crisis and disorder." Added the statement: "In the face of this worrying reality, the action of the government appears inadequate and weak." Political observers thought the mysterious mounting strategy...
...still a spit-and-elastic-band rig," said Rines when it was lowered into the loch, and right he was. Within three days, one strobe light had filled with water, the cylinder containing the Polaroid camera had leaked, and a flash unit...
...Workers of America to unionize clerical and technical workers both on the main campus and at the Medical Area. The drive, which began in 1974 in the Med Area, has met with near-complete success there, but the failure of the University to recognize the area as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining has resulted in a fiasco whose end still seems more than a year...