Next time you get a call pitching a sure thing, ask, before hanging up, where the caller is from.
Oil is what economists call a "fugitive resource, " a thing, like water or wild game, that migrates where it wants and is difficult to own in any conventional sense.
When you get a call, the thing's got to come off your wrist and be held up to your ear unless you've got a Bluetooth headset ready to rock, but worry not: Neutrano's also showing a model of its Nutec WristFone that pops off at the base of the wristband so you don't need to unstrap it from your wrist.
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When you're a police officer answering a domestic violence call, the last thing you want to find out is that someone in the house has a stockpile of weapons.
Couple these with a strong safety net and you start to build a functioning healthcare market instead of the mangled thing we have now and call a market.
"We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point where we believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.
Anne was, for the record, everything one could hope for in a call center rep: She was passionate about doing the right thing for a disgruntled customer (me), poised and professional about how she handled my complaint, and profusely apologetic that she could not do anything to facilitate a more satisfying resolution to my problem.
Rather, they erred in not letting the person who took the call know that the whole thing was a joke.
It's hard to call anything a 'bet the company' thing at this point--that is, if it doesn't succeed, the whole fate of the company is tied up in it.
Whether the two simply call the whole thing off or become a single unified company, Vodafone and Verizon could be "resolving" their relationship very soon according to Bloomberg.
ENGADGET: Bloomberg: Verizon seeking to end Vodafone partnership through merger or buyout
They call this thing ChatPerf, and it's a thumb-drive-sized atomizer that plugs into your mobile device so it can be triggered to release specific odors on command.
And with recent natural catastrophes proving atomic energy isn't what you'd call 'safe, ' it's a good thing the researchers down at the RMIT University in Melbourne have been hard at work figuring out how to turn you into a self-sustained energy source.
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And though Gearbox has mastered single player campaigns and co-op, Deathmatch has really never been their thing which is a problem considering how heavily Call of Duty relies on the mode.
Actually, if that means just a hint of the brilliant command of pacing that the Call of Duty series has always managed, that might be a good thing.
The other thing is that there's never an outright call for a U.S. intervention.
Let's say you call Joe's Pizza, and the first thing you hear is a message saying you'll be connected in a minute or two.
The main thing is that we see this as a wake-up call for immediate responses and remedies to be put in place.
"A quick and simple phone call to me right away would have defused the whole thing immediately, " he said.
The battery on this thing is what we'd call decent -- it takes quite a while to get a full charge, and lasts about a week of regular use.
The last thing I want them doing is blaming us for not returning a call or fixing a problem that we promised to fix by the end of the day.
Interestingly, that weakness began to appear last July, executives said in a conference call with analysts-- long before the "Streetwalker" item suggesting the same thing.
It reduced Grenell's visibility, keeping him off a conference call with media where someone might ask about the social-conservative criticism, that kind of thing.
All told, it's not-too-modern design could be a good thing: the 610's design might be safe, but it will also call less attention to itself than the 91z, whose anorexic panel borders on avant-garde.
The whole thing went down one day after Citigroup announced third-quarter earnings and Pandit hosted a conference call, without there being any mention that it was in the works.
And what we used to call the Big Three pinned a lot of hope on new kinds of vehicles, and just talking about the same thing in the housing market, a rosier economy.
"When he did call he said I should know one thing: I'd have to bring it up from the bottom of a lake, " he says.
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