Mr. Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, didn't answer a phone call seeking comment.

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Air gestures also can be used to answer a phone call.

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Of course, you don't have to answer a phone call from a marketing concern, but you're breaking the law if you don't give the Census Bureau the details it wants.

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It would be rude to be speaking to someone face-to-face then answer a phone call, but I can be talking to someone, or even sitting listening to a professor in a class, and also quickly answer a text message at the same time.

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There were particularly pointed Clinton campaign ads asking voters who they would want in the White House to an answer an emergency phone call at 3 a.m.

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The fear of rejection when someone doesn't answer a Facebook message lacks the impact of an ignored phone call, according to Wallace.

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When I followed up with Allegra in a phone call, he explained that the email he forgot to answer was an offer to continue his employment at Apple as a remote intern.

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She said the weekend before her husband had died she had tried several times to call a welfare officer at the barracks but gave up when all she could reach was an answer phone.

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