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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: On the Phone War Front | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Fred Cohen of Out of Town News said the project was a primary concern of the Harvard Square Businessman's Association, and added that most businessmen would just "wait...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Federal Funds Granted; Subway Extension Slated | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

...wait a minute, I know that look in your eye. You want me to print some of the mail I've been getting here at the Sports Cube and my responses. No way, that would be cruel to all these freshmen who confide in me as if I was Ann Landers in high Cons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail Chauvinism | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...Egyptian costume complete with vulture collar and emblems of the god Ra, is gyrating through a routine entitled "Pharaoh's Favorite Toy." The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album, and Tut T shirts are also catching on. For those who must wait outside the museum, 16 portable "Tutlets" are at their disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Tut Tut, New Orleans, a blue street? | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Twice a year they descend, a 10,000-strong army of the night, on New York University's Shimkin Hall. There they wait patiently in line to register, at $55 to $117 a ten-to twelve-week session, for more than 800 courses ranging from Arabic to Zen. The electronically minded can choose from among 75 courses that explicate computer wizardry; language devotees can immerse themselves in Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian or Swahili. There are more than 80 courses in the down-to-earth business of real estate. And a beguiling "Broadway Matinee" course offers tickets to four shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Applying the Gray Matter | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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