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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connecticut couple has discovered another way besides the lottery to convert numbers into dollars. Hank and Marie Oscar knew that there was something unusual about 800-243-2546, the toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Let Us Take Your Number | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...VIDEO: TV' s most- everything- ever mini- series is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Sweeping into the Air France storeroom at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. Customs agents recently seized $50,000 in gold and 15 tons of merchandise, mostly small shipments of videocassette recorders, lawn chairs, cameras and even a video-game system. The intended destination: Viet Nam, which since 1975 has been on the U.S. embargo list for all but humanitarian goods. Yet no one was arrested. The raid, said a Customs spokesman, was meant only to "send a message to those who would blatantly violate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Video Games For Viet Nam | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Last week, the student disciplinary committee demanded that the frat release two video tapes that are the only formal evidence of the event. Although the fraternity missed its Monday deadline for submission of the tapes, its lawyer passed in one tape a day later, Radomski said. It is unclear who made the tapes...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Frat Fundraiser Called Racially Insensitive | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

...Home Video, Oct. 27). Six years after he set box-office records, Hollywood's favorite alien finally phones home video. It promises to be the top-selling movie cassette ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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