They drew the line, though, at wearing beepers.

Those ethicists are going to have to wear beepers all the time, carry cells, be permanently online.

Our residents are on call on the weekends and wear beepers.

They are children of divorce who work weekends, wear beepers and smoke cigarettes on the sly.

"Guys wear beepers," one woman said, "and they're not doctors."

Doormen wear beepers on their belts, so his grab's too high for that.

The business systems unit "has engineers who wear beepers," he said.

"It's a group of four persons on call all the time who wear beepers 24 hours a day," he explained.

He used conventional questionnaires but also required teachers to wear beepers that reminded them to record their moods and activities several times a day.

You've got these kids wearing beepers and gold chains.