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- <text id=93TT2589>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Dialing for Dollars
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- SOCIETY
- Dialing for Dollars
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Judge blocks a law restricting prerecorded phone sales pitches
- </p>
- <p> Ring! Hello? Argh! You've missed the final seconds of an N.F.L.
- play-off game to answer the phone only to hear a recorded voice
- pitching some product you don't want. Why, there ought to be a
- law...!
- </p>
- <p> Actually there is. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act,
- which restricts telephone solicitation, went into effect Dec.
- 20, and is already being challenged. Kathryn Moser, who runs a
- chimney-sweeping business in Keizer, Oregon, says the law hurts
- her marketing, and got U.S. District Judge James A. Redden to
- issue a preliminary injunction on the part of the law that deals
- with prerecorded phone solicitations. The injunction applies
- nationwide, and the Federal Communications Commission will
- probably contest it in court.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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