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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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