And eventually, a telephone operator -- a telegraph operator sent out a simple message to the cheers of a waiting nation.
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When a patient calls 111, an operator - who is trained in the same way as a 999 operator - can send out an ambulance, put someone straight through to a nurse, book an out-of-hours GP appointment, or direct the caller to a pharmacist or dentist.
He worked odd jobs, as a cart boy at a golf course, a ski-lift operator and a janitor (he uses his janitor ID as his Twitter avatar).
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This migration from a mall-based operator into a neighborhood center REIT was perhaps the most distinguishable initiative in which the REIT began to exploit its differentiated investment strategy of focusing on necessity retail properties.
The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
Now Josh, the I'm-going-to-be-a-reporter-someday crew member, and Michael, the I-really-want-to-be-a-rock-star prompter operator, were around me, wearing the same expression you'd have after witnessing a car wreck.
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He also likes Norwegian conglomerate Orkla Group and Brisa Auto-Estradas de Portugal, a toll-road operator.
WorldCom's attempt to merge with Sprint, a long-distance operator, in 2000 was rejected as anti-competitive, since it would have created a giant with huge market power.
Vodafone, a mobile-phone operator, has just set up a mobile health unit in Britain.
Veolia, a private train-operator, pulled out of bidding for a contract in Stuttgart in February, complaining that DB, which was also in the running, would not provide the information needed to prepare its bid.
TIM, a mobile-phone operator, and Seat Pagine Gialle, a directories firm.
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She cautions against playing tricks on customers, like getting rid of an angry English-speaking caller by transferring him to a Spanish-speaking operator, because that worker will be caught.
Not so long ago, I was speaking with a European country-head of a major global telecoms network operator who was enthusiastically endorsing Huawei as a value-chain partner.
To distribute legally in such countries, a satellite-TV operator needs the local government on its side.
Ford is working on hybrid vehicles with Toyota, once a lone wolf but now a keen co-operator.
That means its software can do things such as suggesting answers to a call-centre operator or monitoring television channels for words or subjects.
The presentation, which lasted almost three hours, was all but over for Virgin after Edward Boches, Mullen's chief creative officer, said he wasn't a hands-on operator.
The presentation, which lasted just under three hours, was all but over for Virgin after Edward Boches , Mullen's chief creative officer, said he wasn't a hands-on operator.
With licenses from music companies, a locker-service operator could give users instant access to songs stored in central servers, rather than making those users upload every song in their music collections.
When Celtel, a mobile-phone operator, set up in Zambia eight years ago, it concentrated on the densely populated corridor between Victoria Falls (on the border with Zimbabwe), Lusaka and the industrial copper belt.
Worryingly, as well as selling subsidiaries that have nothing to do with retailing, Seiyu has also got rid of part of Muji's owner, Ryohin Keikaku, and Family Mart, a convenience-store operator, both good businesses.
But he is a razor-sharp operator.
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In 2011 it co-founded e-Shang, a warehousing developer and operator based in Shanghai. e-Shang has grown from a portfolio of warehouses of 50, 000 square meters in 2011 to its current 1 million square meters of completed and developing projects, buoyed by the rapid growth of e-commerce in the country.
When one of their users signs up to an 12-month contract with a network operator like Vodafone or T-Mobile , it's unlikely they will be shopping around for another phone for that time period.
Convergys, traditionally a strong call-center operator, began leveraging the lower salaries of its Indian staff to sell products for a large tech company.
Then, each critical-infrastructure operator would have a third-party, commercial auditor assess its cybersecurity risk mitigation plans.
It may also be due partly to prejudice: Mr Cardoso is an ex-professor, Mr da Silva a former lathe operator and trade-union leader who never went to university.
Biscom, a Milan-based broadband cable operator whose stock is currently buried in a deep trench, along with a host of other, bigger telecom companies.
Shares in the health-club operator soared to a nearly four-year high Tuesday following speculation on a takeover bid.
Satellite broadcasters were added after the Supreme Court decided in 1991 that a direct-broadcast satellite company was a cable operator.
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