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FILENAME:	2432_1120_1071
TOPIC#:		335
DATE:		910404
TRANSCRIBER:	GL
UTT_CODER:	mlg
DIFFICULTY:	2
TOPICALITY:	3
NATURALNESS:	1
ECHO_FROM_B:	1
ECHO_FROM_A:	3
STATIC_ON_A:	1
STATIC_ON_B:	1
BACKGROUND_A:	3
BACKGROUND_B:	2
REMARKS:        People in the background most of the time.  Both speakers,
at times, speak to people in the background.  Breath sounds, like speakers
too close to the phone.

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o          A.1 utt1:  Okay. /  

sd          B.2 utt1:  {D Well, } I just got back from taking my little girl to her Brownie meeting,  /
sd          B.2 utt2: {C and then } we had  [ this whole can, + ] {F uh, } a bag filled full of cans -- /  

b          A.3 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.4 utt1:  -- {C and } they've been recycling at their school.  /
sd          B.4 utt2:  {D Well, } she wanted me to just wait and let her dump them off tomorrow. /  

b          A.5 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.6 utt1:  {C But } they were filled with beer cans <laughter>. /  

b          A.7 utt1:  Hm <laughter>. /  

sd          B.8 utt1:  {C and } I hated to take a big old sack,  {E I mean, } [ one time, + ] {E I mean, } like a lawn bag --   

b          A.9 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.10 utt1:  -- full of them.  /
%          B.10 utt2:  {D Like } I, - /
%          B.10 utt3: no,  /
sd          B.10 utt4: we'll just taking them up there and put them in the bins anyway. /  

b          A.11 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.12 utt1:  They had tickets at their school that they recycle {C either } newspapers {C or } cans,  /
sd          B.12 utt2: {C and } I think that's all. /  

b          A.13 utt1:  Oh. /  

t3          B.14 utt1:  <Talking> <<someone speaking in the background>> Okay,  /
sd          B.14 utt2: {C and } they're taking the money that they earn </talking> to plant trees. /  

ba          A.15 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's a good idea. /  

b          B.16 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.16 utt2: {C and } they've got their bins that stay there,  /
sd          B.16 utt3: {C and } they've decorated real cute,  {D you know, } with a bunch of big old flowers --   

b          A.17 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.18 utt1:  -- and stuff.  /
sd          B.18 utt2:  {C So } they're getting into it.  /
sd          B.18 utt3:  I don't know what they get for the tickets, though.  /
t3          B.18 utt4: <<talking to someone off the phone>> What do you get for the tickets, if you bring stuff?  /
sd          B.18 utt5:  <talking> {F Oh, } the class that gets the most tickets gets a party </talking>. /  

ba          A.19 utt1:  {F Oh, } that's good. /  

aa          B.20 utt1:  It's not bad, yeah. /  

^h          A.21 utt1:  {F Um, } I know, - /
sd          A.21 utt2: [ [ we + <<speaks to someone off phone>>  ((   ))  {F um, } we, ] + we ] are kind of getting into recycling now.  /
sd          A.21 utt3: I'm in college,  /
sd          A.21 utt4: {C and } I live in a dorm,  /
sd          A.21 utt5: {C and } we recycle paper. /  

b          B.22 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.23 utt1:  {C And } I know that there's a glass plant up here,  /
sd          A.23 utt2: {C and } they recycle glass,  /
sd          A.23 utt3: {C and, } {D you know, } we recycle old aluminum cans and all that kind of stuff. /  

qy          B.24 utt1:  {C So } in each of the dorms you have a place for that? /  

ny          A.25 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

ba          B.26 utt1:  That's really good. /  

b          A.27 utt1:  Uh-huh.  /
b          A.27 utt2:  Yeah.  /
sd          A.27 utt3:  {C And then } when our dorm, - /
sd          A.27 utt4: whenever our bins are all filled up, we take them and turn them in,  /
sd          A.27 utt5: {C and then } we get money for that. /  

qy^d          B.28 utt1:  For the dorm,  /
qw          B.28 utt2: {C and } who decides what you do with it? /  

ny          A.29 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          A.29 utt2: [ we just put, + {D you know, } we just  keep ] it with the dorm. /  

qw          B.30 utt1:  {C And } what do they do with it? /  

sd          A.31 utt1:  {D Well, } we buy things for the dorm, whatever the dorm needs, {D you know. }  /
sd          A.31 utt2:  {D Like } we have access to a microwave and an oven if we want to cook things,  /
sd          A.31 utt3: {C and then } we buy, like, cooking equipment and stuff. /  

b          B.32 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          A.33 utt1:  {C Or } we play games, like board games.  /
sd          A.33 utt2:  We buy board games.  /
sd          A.33 utt3: {D You know, } it's just different things, whatever, {D you know, }  /
sd          A.33 utt4: we vote on it,  /
sd          A.33 utt5: {C and } whatever the dorm would want, that's what we buy. /  

sd          B.34 utt1:  {D Well, } I graduated from college in nineteen seventy-two, /  

b          A.35 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.36 utt1:  {C And } we were just, {F um, } not aware that this was a problem, that we ever would need to recycle. /  

b          A.37 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.38 utt1:  Of course, you just threw it away. /  

b          A.39 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd         B.40 utt1:  {C So, } a little different.  /
sd          B.40 utt2:  {C And } I wanted to do this thing that you can get through Target, to recycle.  /
sd          B.40 utt3:  I had my school do it,  /
sd          B.40 utt4: {C but } my principal said since we're doing this thing called Operation Desert Shield, we're sending letters to all these servicemen and making video tapes and all that <laughter>. /  

b          A.41 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.42 utt1:  The whole school, {D you know, } - /
sd          B.42 utt2: it was just this big project,  /
sd          B.42 utt3: she didn't want to get into that.  /
sd          B.42 utt4:  {C And } I could do it in the center,  /
sd          B.42 utt5: {C and } I just never got around to it. /  

x          A.43 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

sd          B.44 utt1:  {C But, } it's like a club,  /
qy          B.44 utt2: you know about that? /  

nn          A.45 utt1:  No. /  

sd          B.46 utt1:  A little boy that had died of leukemia, I think,  /
sd          B.46 utt2: {C and } he had started this, {F um, } save the environment club. /  

b          A.47 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.48 utt1:  {C And } his mother is carrying this on.  /
sd          B.48 utt2: {C And } you can get the information to set it up, {D you know } --   

b          A.49 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.50 utt1:  -- and join,  /
sd          B.50 utt2: you don't have to join it as a group or anything, I don't guess. /  

%          A.51 utt1:  {F Oh, } that'd be go-, -/  

sd          B.52 utt1:  {C But } you could start your own anyway.  /
sd          B.52 utt2:  Get a pamphlet, /  

qy          A.53 utt1:  Is that what this target is,  /
%          A.53 utt2: what you're, -/  

qy          B.54 utt1:  Do you all have Target stores up there? /  

nn          A.55 utt1:  No. /  

bk^r          B.56 utt1:  No. /  

b          A.57 utt1:  Huh-uh. /  

sd          B.58 utt1:  That's a department store. /  

b          A.59 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.60 utt1:  Kind of like K Mart --   

b          A.61 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.62 utt1:  -- except it's a little better than what K Mart sells, I think. /  

b          A.63 utt1:  Oh.  /
sd          A.63 utt2:  I would like, - /
sd          A.63 utt3: let's start up a Target.  /
%          A.63 utt4:  No.  /
sd          A.63 utt5: {F Um, } I don't really know any other recycling that they do. /  

qy^d          B.64 utt1:  {C So, } [ you're not pick-, + you're not ] having it picked up --   

nn          A.65 utt1:  No. /  

+          B.66 utt1:  -- at your houses or anything. /  

nn          A.67 utt1:  No,  /
nn          A.67 utt2: huh-uh.  /
sd          A.67 utt3:  We have to take it to a recycling place. /  

b          B.68 utt1:  {F Huh. }  /
sd          B.68 utt2:  Now in some of the towns around us, they're already picking up the newspapers. /  

b          A.69 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.70 utt1:  {D Well, } they're doing that here, too, now that I think about it <talking>.  <<man's voice in background>> Once every so many weeks,  /
sd          B.70 utt2: {C and } you have to pull out all the slicks,  /
sd          B.70 utt3: {C and } you have to wrap them up with string. /  

b          A.71 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd          B.72 utt1:  {C And, } I think that's all they're picking up.  /
sd          B.72 utt2:  {C But } {D you know, } {D like } in Minnesota, they've got their bins where you put plastics and your bottles. /  

sd          A.73 utt1:  {F Oh, } I didn't know that. /  

b          B.74 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.74 utt2: {C because } my brother-in-law lives in Minnesota,  /
sd          B.74 utt3: {C and } they're are just nice, plastic bins,  /
sd          B.74 utt4: {C and } you fill them up and put them out with your other trash,  /
sd          B.74 utt5: {C and } they pick them up. /  

sd          A.75 utt1:  {F Um. }  I never heard of that <talking> <<people in background>>. /  

qy          B.76 utt1:  Do you all have can banks? /  

no          A.77 utt1:  {F Um, } not that I know of <laughter>. /  

qy          B.78 utt1:  No? /  

nn          A.79 utt1:  No. /  

%          B.80 utt1:  <Talking> <<people in background>> I sus-, - /
sd          B.80 utt2: a big old bin,  /
sd          B.80 utt3: {C and } you just feed your cans slowly into the slot,  /
sd          B.80 utt4: {C and } your money comes out, {D you know, } every once in a while, for however much poundage you've got.  /
sd          B.80 utt5: {C And } if you keep feeding it until the light goes off.   

ba          A.81 utt1:  {F Oh } my gosh. /  

+         B.82 utt1:  [ And + ] you get instant cash.  /
sd          B.82 utt2:  {C But } they had one that I was putting my stuff in,  /
sd          B.82 utt3: {C and } I went to take some today,  /
sd          B.82 utt4: {C and } it was gone. /  

b          A.83 utt1:  {F Um. } /  

b          B.84 utt1:  I don't know.  /
sd          B.84 utt2:  {C But } I located another one today on the way to work. /  

b          A.85 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          A.85 utt2: {F uh, } we have places where we go  /
sd          A.85 utt3: {C and } [ we, + what we ] do is we unload our cans.  /
sd          A.85 utt4:  It's like a conveyor belt,  /
sd          A.85 utt5: {C and } the belt separates the aluminum ones from the steel ones because it has a magnet on it.  /
sd          A.85 utt6:  {C And then } they weigh, {F uh, } your aluminum cans,  /
sd          A.85 utt7: {C and then } you get money for your aluminum cans. /  

qy^d          B.86 utt1:  {C But } they don't give you for the other. /  

nn          A.87 utt1:  No.  /
sd          A.87 utt2: {C But } now they're going to start giving us money for the other ones, too.  /
sd          A.87 utt3: Before, they didn't.  /
sd          A.87 utt4:  {C But } I know they're going <talking> <<in background>> to start now. /  

b          B.88 utt1:  Uh-huh.  /
sd          B.88 utt2:  {D Well } they're certain places, {D you know, } where down there you can take your leaded cans.  /
sd          B.88 utt3:  {C But } I don't know where they are.  /
sd          B.88 utt4:  They publish it in the newspaper if you wanted to get into it. /  

b          A.89 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

b          B.90 utt1:  I don't know.  /
sd          B.90 utt2:  I'm trying  /
sd          B.90 utt3: {C but, }   

x          A.91 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

+          B.92 utt1:  I just can't recycle everything. /  

b          A.93 utt1:  Yeah,  /
b^r          A.93 utt2: yeah  /
x          A.93 utt3: <laughter>.   

sd          B.94 utt1:  I'm not that dedicated. /  

b          A.95 utt1:  Yeah. /  

%          B.96 utt1:  {C But. } -/  

sd          A.97 utt1:  {D Well, } that's all I really know about recycling. /  

sd          B.98 utt1:  Me, too.  /
%          B.98 utt2:  If they would. - /
sd          B.98 utt3: {F Oh, } I know, we're saving our grocery bags now. /  

bh          A.99 utt1:  {F Oh } really? /  

ny          B.100 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          B.100 utt2: they're taking those up.  /
sd          B.100 utt3:  You can take them to the stores <talking> <<in background>>.  /
sd          B.100 utt4: {F Um, } {D like } Kroger's doing it.  /
sd          B.100 utt5:  {C And } I think Skaggs.  /
qy          B.100 utt6:  Do you have those up there? /  

na          A.101 utt1:  We have Kroger,  but not a Skaggs. /  

%          B.102 utt1:  {C And } we, - /
sd          B.102 utt2: they're taking our milk cartons and our plastic coke bottles there, too. /  

b          A.103 utt1:  Oh. /  

%          B.104 utt1:  {D So. } -/  

%          A.105 utt1:  {F Uh. } /  

qy^g          B.106 utt1:  That's pretty good isn't it. /  

na          A.107 utt1:  You guys are getting into it more than we are. /  

sd          B.108 utt1:  It sounds like it,  /
sv          B.108 utt2: you'd think you would be. /  

b          A.109 utt1:  Uh-huh.  /
o          A.109 utt2:  Huh-uh,  /
sd          A.109 utt3: I've never seen any, {D you know, } places that do.  /
sd          A.109 utt4: I know, {F um, } we reuse our grocery bags now.  /
sd          A.109 utt5:  We take them back, {D you know, } and use the ones that we have.  /
sd          A.109 utt6:  You can like, - /
sd          A.109 utt7: if you have grocery bags you can take them and use them instead of getting new ones. /  

qy          B.110 utt1:  You mean where you sack your own groceries. /  

ny          A.111 utt1:  Yeah.  /
ny^r          A.111 utt2:  Yeah,  /
sd^e          A.111 utt3: {C but } we don't have any place that collects the grocery bags. /  

b          B.112 utt1:  {F Huh. }  /
sd          B.112 utt2:  {C And } I don't want to go with those canvas bags right now, I'm sorry.  /
sd          B.112 utt3: I'm not that European <laughter>. /  

x          A.113 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

%          B.114 utt1:  {C But } {D you know, } they do that like, - /
sd          B.114 utt2: I went to Europe, nineteen seventy-three. /  

b          A.115 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.116 utt1:  {C And, } {D you know, } they go all the time.  /
sd          B.116 utt2:  It's like they would go almost every day to the store.  /
sd          B.116 utt3:  {C And } they had their little bags --   

b          A.117 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.118 utt1:  -- way back then,  and fill it up.  /
sd          B.118 utt2:  {C And } they had this little bitty old teeny refrigerators. /  

ba          A.119 utt1:  {F Oh, } my. /  

sv         B.120 utt1:  That's why.  /
sd          B.120 utt2:  They couldn't put anything in it hardly.  /
%          B.120 utt3:  {C But, } -/  

%          A.121 utt1:  {F Uh. } /  

qo          B.122 utt1:  {D Well, } what are you going to do when you get out of college? /  

sd          A.123 utt1:  I'm a finance major. /  

sd          B.124 utt1:  {D Well, } that's why I did what I did.  /
sd          B.124 utt2:  I went into teaching <laughter>. /  

x          A.125 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

sd          B.126 utt1:  Here in Texas it's a real mess right now. /  

b          A.127 utt1:  {F Oh, } really. /  

aa          B.128 utt1:  {F Oh } definitely.  /
%          B.128 utt2:  There's no. - /
^h          B.128 utt3: Let's see,  /
sd          B.128 utt4: we've had the funding,  /
sd          B.128 utt5: we've run out of money.  /
sd          B.128 utt6:  We've frozen the money.  /
^g          B.128 utt7:  Right?  /
sd          B.128 utt8: {C And } they had until the fifteenth of April to come up some formula that would be more equitable to different districts according to finances, because the poor districts were getting less money, so not as good an education. /  

b          A.129 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

^g          B.130 utt1:  Right?   /
sd          B.130 utt2: {C And } now they're trying to take some money away from the richer districts, like the one that I'm in, in Dallas, and make us pay our money to the smaller ones and make it more equitable. /  

x          A.131 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

sd          B.132 utt1:  {C And } if they can't come up with something by the fifteenth, then the state's supposed to decide, the courts. /  

 qw         A.133 utt1:  What do you think the outcome will be? /  

sv          B.134 utt1:  I think they're maybe going to give us a state income tax.  /
qy          B.134 utt2:  Do you have one? /  

ny          A.135 utt1:  Yeah  /
x          A.135 utt2: <laughter>.   

sd          B.136 utt1:  <Laughter> I'm not looking forward to it,  /
sd          B.136 utt2: {C but } something's got to be done. /  

b          A.137 utt1:  Yeah.  /
b          A.137 utt2:  {F Oh } yeah,  /
sd          A.137 utt3: we've had one as long as I can remember <laughter>. /  

sd          B.138 utt1:  <Laughter> {D Well, } it's going to hit us. /  

b          A.139 utt1:  Yeah  /
x          A.139 utt2:  <laughter>.   

h          B.140 utt1:  {C And } I don't know,  /
%          B.140 utt2: did-, - /
sv          B.140 utt3: doesn't seem like it work to take it away when we're using it.  /
%          B.140 utt4: {C But } maybe, - /
sv          B.140 utt5: I know we're not using it so wisely. /  

b         A.141 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sv          B.142 utt1:  We have too many administrators --   

b          A.143 utt1:  Yeah. /  

+          B.144 utt1:  -- in some of these big districts. /  

b          A.145 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

qy^t          B.146 utt1:  {C But } other than that.  {D Well, } can you think of anything else we need to talk about. /  

sd          A.147 utt1:  {F Um, } I can't think of anything on recycling. /  

sd          B.148 utt1:  Me, either.  /
qy          B.148 utt2: Anything else? /  

nn          A.149 utt1:  No. /  

qo          B.150 utt1:  What about people from, {F um, }  Pennsylvania.  /
qw          B.150 utt2:  What do they think about Texans? /  

qy^r          A.151 utt1:  What do we think about them? /  

ny          B.152 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

 h         A.153 utt1:  {F Oh, } I don't <laughter> know <laughter>. /  

qy          B.154 utt1:  <Laughter> Have you thought about that? /  

nn          A.155 utt1:  No,  /
sd^e          A.155 utt2: I never really thought about it <laughter>. /  

x          B.156 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

qo          A.157 utt1:  <Laughter>   ((   ))  what you think about Pennsylvanians. /  

sv          B.158 utt1:  Probably a lot more civilized, more, {F um, } refined than a lot of the people would be down here. /  

b          A.159 utt1:  {F Oh } really <laughter>. /  

sd          B.160 utt1:  I would hope so,  /
sd          B.160 utt2: {E I mean } you've been together a little bit longer than we have. /  

x          A.161 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

x          B.162 utt1:  <Laughter>.   

h          A.163 utt1:  <Laughter> I don't know,  /
sd          A.163 utt2: I really don't know anyone from Texas or anything. /  

b          B.164 utt1:  No. /  

sd          A.165 utt1:  I've never been there, {F um. } /  

sd          B.166 utt1:  {D Well } I've never, - /
^h          B.166 utt2: {D well } let's see,  /
sd          B.166 utt3: I think I have too been to Pennsylvania.  /
qy          B.166 utt4: <child> Gettysburg? /  

ny          A.167 utt1:  Yeah. /  

b          B.168 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.168 utt2: we went up there.   Now that I think about it.   On one of our long trips --    

b          A.169 utt1:  Uh-huh  /
x          A.169 utt2: <child>.   

+          B.170 utt1:  -- we take off on. /  

%          A.171 utt1:  {F Oh, } {D well } <child>. -/  

o          B.172 utt1:  Shboom.  /
t3          B.172 utt2:  <<to child in room>> What are you saying, Holly?  /
sd          B.172 utt3: <child_talking> <<resumes talking to speaker>> {F Oh, } my little girl is in the second grade, told me to tell you that Shboom means good-bye in the Israeli language. /  

b          A.173 utt1:  Oh. /  

t3          B.174 utt1:  <<To child in room>>  ((   ))  is what you say it is, Holly?  [  In Israel, + in Israel. ]  /
sd          B.174 utt2: <<back on phone>> {D See } she's got this little girl from Israel in her classroom that she's befriended. /  

b          A.175 utt1:  Oh. /  

sd        B.176 utt1:  {C So } she's into this. /  

qy          A.177 utt1:  {F Oh, } is it like a foreign exchange type student? /  

nn          B.178 utt1:  Huh-uh.  /
sd          B.178 utt2:  You know we've had a lot of the Jewish people ... -/ 
