Weighing five ounces and closely resembling the ubiquitous black pocket pager, it might be overlooked on the overstuffed gun belts of police officers on foot patrol.
A sign says "Play while you wait!" Instead of standing in line, guests receive a pager (it's like being at the Cheesecake Factory) and can play until they are notified it's their turn to fly.
Looking like a compact two-way pager, it has a jack for an ear piece and can be used to make phone calls just like any cell phone.
Although Tartt was tipped from the start for her 771-pager, it was McBride's dark family tale, written in the hurtling, comma-free voice of an unnamed narrator, that won over the judges of the women's prize for fiction, formerly the Orange prize.
But response time was longer -- the report noted that with pagers, it took nearly an extra minute to get the first firetruck out of the station.
"But," Mr. Wolfson added, "because a lot of parts of the state are dead zones for cell phones and pagers, it proved to be a nice respite".
It also recently announced that it was exiting the pager business it leads, in order to focus on GPRS.
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I wasn't directly involved in that, because I was never, as a resident, allowed to carry that pager, because it was an attending level, the pharmacist who carried it.
A few minutes later my pager sounded; it was the emergency ward calling me, and I rushed over.
You might call Modo a rubber-and-plastic listings magazine, like Time Out in a pager, because it displays over 1,000 reviews of restaurants, stores, movies, concerts, clubs and bars.
