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: smmunications
capaci approaches infinity,
cs . bury.your head
‘ the: pillows: becomes
irresistible. There, that says
it.

‘Now, I would assume that
. any massive new shift in
attitudes ~ towards com-

yack at ‘each. other

put ihis great sia: “over the phone more than
‘truth of the 1980s even more any other people. And there-
sweepingly: we must be more

fore,

‘Ter in-camera vote
- in ai recent
meeting.
Mayor Don Bell hastened
to_comment that it was not
appropriate to divulge in-
formation from in-camera

in-camera

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highly-evolved in terms of
adaptation to com-
munications technology.
(This isn't necessarily
great news. Evolution might
be a trap, you know.)
Case in , point: - The
legendary electronic beeper
that was supposed to

_ revolutionize the way Great

Men operated. If you had
one of those horrid little
gadgets clipped to your belt,
you had to be'a VIP.

At least, that’s the way it
was when they first came
out, six years ago or so. *

' Nowadays?- Only
messenger boys and doctors
use them. There’s just 20
stature in a beep. And, of

course, there is a side-effect .

to the beepef: Insanity.

(Anyone who has-ever. been .

captured by one of these evil
little mechanical invaders

leak upsets a

was “only hearing one side of
the problem” in the current
dispute with the Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) and he said “Fm
getting pretty fed up with

from another dimension will .

know exactly what I mean.)

I think the beeper was the
high-tide’_ mark ‘of the

communications industry...
Since then, thank God, it has
all been do

The- beginning of the end
of the -golden age of com-
munications was. signalled
the day. the first cheap.
automatic — tape-recording
and answering service
device arrived in the display
wind at Radio Shack. For

y four hundred bucks, fe
you can ‘stick,‘this box’ on . lea

your desk and shut out the
entire. world, yet still get
those damned messages you
have to get in order to stay
alive.

My particular machine is a

Dufone Remote Control :

TAD-20.° You dial my

bought: one of these: lite
mental ‘bodyguards, I’ cant
get trpogh on the pho

dy. And they can

guumber and you get my yj

taped: voice telling you to
leave: your message. It’s
infuriating. But great in

council would make such a
statement later in the week.

Other council members|

agreed with Bell that the
labor negotiations should be

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engincers arc “a
vulnerable body” because

they're non-unibn, he said.
Payne argued it was “the
right of anybody on strike to
protect his job” by picketing
work. done by scabs, but he
voted for the bylaw because
“The City of North Van-
couver wouldn’t want to sce
construction come to a

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; meetings and that council

had “a policy that labor
matters should be discussed
in-camera.

But Bell said the public

standstill.”

Morris told council the
Situation did have a little
humor to it because he
hadn’t been aware work was
going on at one site until
CUPE threw up a picket
around the building.

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“There is a need for this
council to make a statement
with respect to this strike,”
he said and added he hoped

continued in private and
some made a point of
denying that they had
released the results of the in-
cainera meeting.

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