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WATS line - a telephone line;long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone service

phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line, line - a telephone connection

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A WATS line permitted extensive long-distance phoning in days when it was otherwise costly and discouraged by departmental administrators.

Our 30th anniversary in the beginning

The direct cost of the program: around $100 a month - the cost of the WATS line. Every 18 to 24 months there's the additional cost of printing posters advertising the hot line, which are sent to all Georgia-Pacific plants, mills, distribution centers, and sales offices - more than 500 locations in all.

Company crooks on the line

Installation stallation of a statewide WATS line is another means of encouraging staff and patient followup after discharge (Milhous, undated).

Involving consumers and service providers in shaping a rural rehabilitation agenda

Despite the court plea, Beitchman continues to deny vigorously he ever called Upper Southampton resident Henry Malinowski on the Tribune-Democrat's WATS line and impersonated a Pennsylvania deputy attorney general to get Malinowski to back off in the dispute with Beitchman's brother Arthur.

Ex-editor pleads no contest in impersonation case

Each member of Congress can have a WATS line installed in his or her home for free.

What Lloyd Cutler could learn from Acme Widget; target pay increases to jobs that are hard to fill

In addition to the ordinary facilities of a university j-school, the Kiplinger fellows have access to a fax and a WATS line. The D.C.

Grad school program goes investigative: Kiplinger program changes direction

With AT&T's introduction of the WATS line in 1961, a few companies began to specialize in contract phone sales work for other companies.

Dialing for dollars