Two years ago, it was a few phone calls from the dock to confirm a news story.
Goldman could probably have smoothed things over with a few phone calls and meetings, and moved on.
"I've been making a few phone calls, and if we win I'll know where to celebrate in Perpignan!"
Many people are being killed right now in Tripoli - I just got a few phone calls from friends who witnessed people going out of mosques being shot at.
After a few harried phone calls, the Green Beret medic met them at the gate.
Gillespie made a few strategic phone calls to club owners in New York, and Chet Baker was back on the map.
Just a few years ago, the company switchboard might have received angry phone calls, emails might have been submitted expressing consternation, and a few people might have mailed a letter to the top executive.
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Still, Langone, no stranger to Wall Street, made a round of phone calls to top banking executives in the last few days to size up interest in pursuing a counter-offer for the NYSE.
All 9, 500 get their full salaries while completing paperwork or answering phone calls - sometimes for just a few hours a week.
And we started slowly and sure enough, he didn't lose any money, I thought, up until a few days ago, when I came home to three phone calls, you know, from my lawyer, from my accountant, from somebody in Palm Beach.
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Fed up with harassing phone calls, losing sleep and any peace of mind, Sisson called Cranston police a few months ago.
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Although fierce competition has driven down the cost of mobile calls within national borders to a few cents a minute, the cost of using a mobile phone abroad is still sky-high.
According to a December 2011 report from the US Department of Transportation (DOT), 77% of the 6, 002 drivers surveyed admitted to answering phone calls on all, some or most car trips and said that there are only a few situations (such as bad weather or bumper-to-bumper traffic) where they would refrain from talking on the phone.
He had no records yet of Reeva Steenkamp's mobile phone calls, no information about the post-mortem, no forensic or ballistic information beyond a few informal conversations with experts at the scene.
For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.
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