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We used a telephone and a scratch pad.

We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.

With all due respect to the commission, this is not their money, it belongs to the telephone customers who paid the excessive rates in the first place.

We can't rely on an emergency rescue service like in Switzerland despite satellite telephone link-ups.

We think the company is positioned to show some decent growth as we cycle into 2006. The 2006 figure is pure Comcast growth. We believe the cable platform is scalable and cost efficient. We feel that it's incremental for cable companies to get into the phone business, and we don't think it works the same way with the telephone companies.

to say nothing of the times he taped me on the telephone without my knowledge.

Trying to farm around telephone poles, you can do it, but it's not easy.

To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided,

When you get back to the United States, you're absolutely thrilled to recognize what we have here that we absolutely take for granted, all the way from street lights and street cleaners to being able to pick up a telephone that actually works.

When you kidnapped Jeff, you contacted me at my residence and we discussed matters of importance to us both. My telephone number remains the same and my willingness to continue this dialogue remains as strong as it was before.

Failure to resolve requests via email is driving continued use of cost-intensive telephone work, negating any potential cost savings from handling inquiries via email.

Translation is a notoriously thankless profession: there is absolutely no money in it; it involves a severe submersion of the self into another; the hours are long and you get about as much recognition for your efforts as the telephone repairman.

We were fish-tailing in the dead grass, ... A telephone pole hit right on his door. He was in the back right. I was on back left.

We had a telephone conversation, and we were talking about the various pieces of what we'd done. There was nothing calculated. We had a couple of conversations, and because we could rebuild our friendship, it became a logical conclusion that we should do some concerts.

There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time

Those that simply get local telephone service and only want local telephone service won't be subsidizing the discounts for people to obtain all kinds of different bundle services in the future.

We give out real telephone numbers to all subscribers, so users can make voice calls to a friend's cell phone from their computer. Not only going from video to voice, but also completely off of the video network, a user can place a call from a cell phone to a video number and have a VOIP call.

What happens in the drug business, what happens in the supermarket business, what's happening in the department store business and is happening in the telephone business is that the big are getting bigger.

We tend to think of security issues as being computer-based. But many scam artists use the telephone and simple false pretenses to trick people out of data.

We might have sold some telephone jacks and maybe even a couple Cat. 5 jacks, but that was about it.

We will use anything that can carry IP packets to get to the poor countries. You can modulate the radio and TV frequencies, use telephone lines or have packets come down via satellite. The Globalstar idea is the result of a conversation in the last week. We're trying to establish the technical feasibility. Can we do all this? The answer is yes. But then, the devil is in the details,

What's happening there in New York is an early curve of what's going to be happening around the country in the next few years. This is a new wave of competition. Basically the telephone and cable television companies are both rushing to offer the same bundle of services: television, phone, Internet and wireless. The sooner they do, the sooner prices will come down for all the customers.

We will work with newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, the Internet and mobile telephone carriers to teach people the right way to spit.

We will win because you have stuffed more envelopes, and you have licked more stamps, and you have knocked on more doors and made more telephone calls than you have made for any candidate before. Let's turn out like we've never done before on November 7, and you will have made the sweetest history.

We turned the tables and provided the callers with the radio stations' telephone numbers. It ended pretty quickly.

When I started in this business, Blackberry was a fruit. Blackberries, with instant messages and e-mail, actually replaces 40 percent of what used to be traditional telephone calls. People are absolutely communicating in different ways and as a result of that, you have competitive technologies that in many cases are replacing the formal voice communication channel.

used to cut a whole bunch of extra coupons out of the newspaper and the telephone book.

USAA, which serves its customers via telephone and computer, continues to garner kudos for the quick, easy and friendly service they provide.

Broadband was one of the few remaining opportunities for competition in telephone service. Now that door has been closed. If Justice now approves this merger, it slams yet another door.

Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.

Blowers also loaned Duncan thousands of dollars. During this period, Blowers had almost daily telephone contacts with his business partner, with Duncan, or both.

Blowers also loaned Duncan thousands of dollars, ... During this period, Blowers had almost daily telephone contacts with his business partner, with Duncan, or both.

As soon as this technology became available and we knew that most of the players had phones that were capable of texting, we started doing it, ... It's basically an unlimited use of contact we can use during a time when we aren't allowed to telephone or visit with a recruit.

Division II schools will give four kids who play the same position $1,500. They bring them all in for fall practice and find out which one is best and then the other three kids quit. Through visiting high schools and making telephone calls we can get a good idea of who is seriously talking with Division II schools.

Customers who make a move to a big telephone company or a big cable operator will do so because they're offering multiple services at a discount, or you can buy a la carte from multiple service providers if one-stop-shopping can't compete on price. Unlike Ma Bell a quarter-century ago, consumers have a lot more choices today and they're growing.

I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.

I started by bringing up the retirement issue in a player meeting. Then I brought it up in a telephone conversation with the plan administrator. Then I had a personal sit-down meeting with a tour liaison. Then I called two policy board directors. Then I went to my state senator, John McCain. Then I flew to Washington DC and spent a month all over Capitol Hill, where I got two meetings with the Senate finance committee's tax counsel.

The worst thing to do is not make a telephone call.

The worst-case scenario is that the power grid goes down, that the telephone companies don't work... and other utilities, like water, will fail.

The same would be true of telephone companies selling cable TV. That's the fallacy of the bundle idea, because consumers have a mindset about the provider.

I've not seen anything like this before - the faxes, e-mails, telephone calls - in terms of an emergency, ... We are getting resources together and getting that information to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA).

I've received so many letters and telephone calls, it's hard to keep up. I appreciated it so much. But I'm fine.

The subcommittee missed an opportunity to maintain the free and open Internet that we have come to value over the years. The amendment ... would have set fair and reasonable boundaries on the conduct of telephone and cable companies which now will have control over the Internet, while guaranteeing the rights of consumers.

The simple short story is we play telephone by the telephone rules. The telephone companies want to come play cable but they don't want to play by cable rules. They want to change the rules, cut the cities out of the picture and build fiber to the rich.

The telephone stocks had a good run at the start of the week, so investors are taking their profits.

The telephone company is working on repairing the primary phone line that was damaged. We do not know at this time when the repairs will be completed.

The telephone company issue alone has been frustrating for us and so has the cost.

The telephone and cable companies got the bill they wanted.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 spurred the development of telephone competition, but no one could have foreseen the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities that the Internet age has presented, ... New services shouldn't be hamstrung by old thinking and outdated regulations.

The taped message is consistent with my notes as well as my email and telephone communications with editors.

The system of telephone intercepts without controls is unacceptable.

Thanks to Anton, on Dec. 31, 1892 (his 33rd birthday), the streetlights of Washington were lit with generated power . . . He also brought telephone service to Washington.

Telephone records are the extension of the journalist herself. Telephone records are the embodiment of the speech of the journalist and require the same protection.

Telephone customers in Devils Lake will see more competition sooner, rather than later.

Some people prefer telephone counseling. Some people prefer in-person counseling.

Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Our employees increasingly are telling us -- via e-mail, telephone calls and letters -- that they want to understand our offer. They want to know what UPS put on the table. So we're going to tell them.

Opposition to this merger just adds to the list of (Federal Communications Commission Chairman William) Kennard-Klein policies that ultimately will reduce innovation and choice and raise the cost of telephone services for residential customers, particularly those in rural America,

The National Association of Broadcasters supports the concept of the telephone companies getting into video.

A fair review of these telephone calls leads to the conclusion that these two men had no idea where this man Ibrahim was.

Subsidies were instituted that are now being used to pay telephone bills. That strikes me as something that Congress certainly did not have in mind when it passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Devan indicated to me in our first telephone conversation that his family wanted him to have options regarding his future. Devan has conveyed to me that he has not made any decisions, only that he wanted to have options. We are communicating daily and will continue to do so. Obviously, we hope Devan decides to remain with our program.

Anyway, right around that time I had a problem with a wisdom tooth and I had to go to the dentist to have the thing pulled out, and it was while I was sitting in the chair in the dentist's office, the dentist had picked up this big pair of pliers and was just about to yank out my tooth when the telephone rang.

Anybody can make a telephone call to the United States from wherever they are for 10 cents a minute as opposed to $2 to $4 a minute that it costs internationally. If they want to call other countries, like to Europe, it will be around 15 cents a minute.

A publicized reporting line phone number and secured Web address will be established. Individuals who choose to report a complaint over the telephone will be connected to a live operator, employed by Ethics Point, trained to solicit and log the appropriate information. As an alternative, individuals who choose to report a complaint via the Web will follow the same process except that a standardized Web-based questionnaire will be completed in place of speaking to a live operator. An appropriate university contact will be notified of the report.

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating that they had noticed change of mental status with the patient. Apparently he was having difficulty walking. He was unable to swallow his pills and actually kind of spit the antibiotics out. They felt that the patient was having significant changes.

As a mobile telephone-only company, Vodafone faces an inherent weakness as telephone calls in developed countries move onto the Internet. All telecom companies will face falling revenues as calls move online, but at least those offering fixed lines and broadband Internet will get a cut of the remaining revenues.

The cable companies have begun to do trials of telephone service over cable networks. I think this acquisition will speed things up. The combination of AT&T's financial muscle and the advent of Internet based telephony will be the two things that will push that along, and I would think you would be seeing Internet telephony over cable systems in the next three years.

The board will have a telephone hook-up of its 15 members either tomorrow or Monday to discuss whether it retains confidence in the Minister.

That's mainly an instance in which the telephone company hooked us up to the wrong number or a clerical error here gives us the wrong number,

You OK? You OK? A recording is made of a frightening telephone call.

This is because the negative contribution from (weak) rice prices is likely to dissipate and the effects of a reduction in electricity and telephone charges are also expected to ease.

This is really about much more than adding a fourth element to our existing video, data, and telephone bundle. It's about developing a wireless platform that connects all of our services for the customer both inside their home and when they are on the road.

This is a devastating blow to the consumer. This one will lead to the end of the era of falling prices for telephone and cell-phone service.

Almost all of the broadband telephone lines in the UK are based on BT's wholesale products and BT has been slow to introduce faster speeds,

Americans are rightfully concerned that identity thieves, stalkers and unscrupulous data brokers can access such information they believed was kept private by their telephone company.

A lot of Wisconsin consumers were upset with their telephone company in 2005. In fact, it was the #2 complaint last year. We intend to zero in on telephone companies.

They had their say by telephone and then we had them back out of the room, shirtless, hands in the air, no weapons on them.

This is very early in this industry, ... It's like that first telephone call -- try to imagine the cell phones (of) today. We don't know exactly how it will play out, but we know the technology is powerful.

They really look forward to mail. It's very high on their list of priorities. They really like the telephone calls, but a call is expensive. Staying in touch with the outside is really what they want to do.

The most elementary of investigative efforts, such as obtaining telephone and credit card records, were met without support, search warrants denied. The significant opinions of national experts were casually dismissed or ignored by the district attorney's office, even the experienced FBI were waved aside.

It was really a thriller. There was danger out there. The film was using the typewriter and the telephone and pencil on paper as weapons.

It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and lie, and you could get money. It was just a question of how many people were willing to make false statements.

It was interesting to me that it was considered the same as using the telephone on the job. But what about what companies spend on additional bandwidth?

It's a disappointing end to the process because residential customers are getting hit by (electricity) increases, telephone increases, gas increases - the customers are losers.

It never goes on the Internet. It goes over our private network, over Sprint network and then to the public telephone service.

It (requires) just a computer. You can do it remotely. You don't have to go out in the rain and climb a telephone pole anymore.

It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed. I find that much more constricting than walking with a limp. Actually walking with a limp is not that troubling. But to be one-handed, to drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in, and open a door and answer a telephone -- it all becomes incredibly time-consuming. Every scene, for me, is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick up this, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. But, you know, you adapt incredibly quickly. Human beings do. We're very quick.

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

It's kind of Medicare goes old school. This is really an effort to find better ways to support the patient when they are away from the physician through telephone inquiries, visiting nurses and various support systems.

It's like the old telephone game. It further adds to the misinformation. Kids rarely have the whole story, so the information is distorted.

It's getting competitive with some of the quality you get on cell phones. It isn't likely to rival what you have on the standard telephone today.

Consumers should be given the widest possible choice of service providers and should be able to switch telephone companies without unwarranted cost or inconvenience.

Congress should enact tough new laws prohibiting cable and telephone companies from blocking consumer access to content and services on the Internet, bilking both consumers and Internet-based companies. If they don't, these big companies will use their market power to line their pockets by discriminating against competitors in favor of their own content and service offerings.

That's our water line, our power line, our telephone line and our kids' access to the school. It's our whole way of life.

The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.

The average consumer today wakes up with only two choices for full-service broadband communications, which is the future: the telephone company and the cable company. What we've gone from is a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.

Oh no, this was before that, I was already in my 20s by the time the 6502 came out. This was all transistor flip-flops. It was a gated adder with a rotary telephone dial as the primary input device.