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Telephone officials recommend various ways to avoid a credit ripoff. For example, they advise cardholders to give their numbers to operators in a voice that cannot be overheard and, when possible, to use pushbutton phones that allow the codes to be entered without being spoken...
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...have clothes to wear, my own room, a TV and a pushbutton phone," says Marcy Lewis, 13, heroine of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger. "Sometimes I feel guilty being so miserable, but middle-class kids have problems too." Indeed they do, and from Back Bay Boston to Bel Air, Calif., Marcy 's dilemmas and the perils of her fictional peers are avidly shared by a growing legion of juvenile readers. Once limited to such fare as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, teen fiction has blossomed into a lucrative new genre: suburban social realism...
...holocaust is ever visited upon our blessed land, it won't be brought about by ERA marchers, civil libertarians, environmentalists, welfare programs or liberal courts. It will be at the hands of pushbutton zealots who can tolerate only one way of living and thinking, and who attack all other perspectives and philosophies of life as sinful and corrupt...
Business Exchanges (PBXs) or Computerized Business Exchanges (CBXs). Though the computer phones look much like their pushbutton predecessors, matchbook-size integrated circuits have now replaced the mechanical moving parts, including bells, springs and gears, that made the old ones so heavy...