Or maybe it is because we are better at football - and hopeless at long-distance running.
Initially, the group was named Working Assets and was aimed at long-distance service.
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More arrogant yet, the FCC is ticked off at the long distance telephone companies for breaking out this charge on their monthly phone bills instead of burying it in their other fees.
An aircraft take offs, climbs to altitude, cruises at altitude for a long distance, descends into a destination and lands.
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The regional carriers will also be looking closely at number two long-distance carrier MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), which has itself been the center of acquisition rumors.
Any calls outside that area are considered long distance, at a higher per-minute rate.
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Mo Farah, Britain's double long-distance champion at the London Games, said he was comfortable with security planning as he prepares to run a half marathon.
He likened Twitter discussions to trying to have a long-distance conversation at a crowded football game from one section to another while shouting over everyone else's conversations.
Ames scientists are renowned for expertise in heat shields, which is one of the most important elements needed to protect a speeding spacecraft slamming into the earth's atmosphere at the end of a long-distance space voyage.
It might seem odd for BP to shun the fuel at hand in favor of a long-distance solution.
As a result, calls are charged at a much cheaper rate: long-distance and international calls can be made for the price of a local call and a home broadband-internet connection.
He shrugs his shoulders at the mention of carbon footprints linked to long-distance travel.
That seems to exempt long-distance service that is charged at a flat rate per minute, as most is these days.
At 400 kilovolts, a standard value for long-distance transmission, an alternating current 30 metres (100 feet) from the ground has a fortieth of the loss of a similar cable at ground level.
In the late 1960s microwave replaced copper wire as the mainstay of long-distance phone traffic: more volume at lower cost.
Unseen, though, was another opponent: Prefontaine, whose presence decades after his death on May 30, 1975, at the age of 24, has loomed large over long distance running in the United States.
Revenues at America's fixed-line local and long-distance carriers have fallen back since peaking in 2000, and forecasts suggest that revenues will slip further over the next few years partly as VOIP providers grab their business.
The long-distance Javerts in the tough-on-immigration movement need to take a good long look at Les Miserables, whether the book, the movie or the musical, and see the bit of Javert in each of us.
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WorldCom, at one time the nation's number-two long-distance phone company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In 1993, when William Rouhana, started WinStar--a full-service phone company, offering its customers local, long distance and data services--many scoffed at the idea.
Tagging studies show that the scalloped hammerhead gathers at fixed sites around islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during its long-distance migrations.
The flagship Titan 5500, introduced in 1991, came just at the cusp of a huge capital spending boom from the Baby Bells and long distance carriers.
Its access charges to rivals, once at 5.8 cents per minute in revenue that competitors collected on long-distance calls, now are down to a penny a minute for traffic that starts or ends on a Telmex line.
Long-distance solo sailors, for instance, commit themselves to months at sea.
For this story alone, there were the long-distance calls, computers, electricity, wages, health benefits and at least two Starbucks lattes (grande size) involved.
At a pinch, Mr Ebbers might even be willing to sell Sprint's long-distance network, if that was the price for carrying off Sprint's mobile operation.
Rodriguez missed from distance after James Haskell conceded a silly penalty at the ruck before Wilkinson's long-range penalty edged England ahead again.
"At the time of privatisation it was felt that the market would regulate peak time fares on the long distance journeys, " Doe says.
He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.
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