Houston's Fuller, who as a corporate executive used to have vendors at his beck and call, found at first that many suppliers not only didn't return his calls, they insulted him.

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When I asked for a raise because I was working 10-11 hours a day and was almost always at his beck and call, he literally laughed in my face.

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And we've got to put the muscle of the United States government at his beck and call, and behind him.

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In many middle-class families, children have one, two, sometimes three adults at their beck and call.

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His employees were at his beck and call, night and day.

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