Unlike most of its competitors, Southwest does not impose additional fees for items such as seat selection, fuel surcharges, curb side check-in and telephone reservations.

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No man who can sit in his own study with his telephone by his side, and thus listen to the performance of an opera at the Academy, will care to go to Fourteenth street and to spend the vening in a hot and crowded building.

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Telephone poles lean to one side, and there's a strong smell of sewage.

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When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.

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"The way I am at 325 pounds, you don't see too many big guys run from side to side, making plays, " Hankins said in a telephone interview from his home near Detroit.

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United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, serving the first of a five-match touchline ban, was in regular telephone contact with the United dugout and acted to change his side at half-time, replacing the injured Brown with Fabio da Silva and replacing Hernandez with Berbatov.

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As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!

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