You now have a new way to repay your debts with your cellphone other than letting people make calls on it until you're out of hock, in the form of a new service called TextPayMe.
Victoria Edwards, a professional with over 20 years experience in both consumer lending and collections, offers some anecdotes of her own to shed light on who the people are on the other side of those calls.
The John Muir Trust said the move followed walkers failing to heed its calls discouraging people from leaving banana skins on the mountain.
Since there's no need to register, build a friends list and keep the app open to use it, you can even make free calls to people who aren't on your contact list.
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National guidance on people with learning disabilities calls for them to be cared for in their communities, but the Department of Health (DoH) has estimated in England 1, 500 people with challenging behaviour are currently in hospitals.
At the peak of WorldCom's success, Sullivan was known for treating subordinates and colleagues well, often personally putting in calls to people many levels below him on the organization chart, a person who worked with him says.
Until opening the office last October she says they had "resisted" expanding the service to deal with out-of-hours calls having seen research about detrimental effects on people working nights, affecting health and attitude, which could also impact on customers.
Gearbox, TimeGate, and Sega each had a different vision for Colonial Marines, a different approach to its development, and too many people making the calls or pushing on the brakes.
He chides people who dwell on what he calls the mere tinselly teatrino of politics.
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People get annoyed when someone calls randomly on a landline, and get outright outraged when an unsolicited call comes in to their cell phone.
Dannijo started posting photos after its customer-service representatives said they had received phone calls from people who described jewelry they had seen on Instagram.
Several people who have been on the calls say the White House hasn't pushed business leaders to lobby Congress on the White House's behalf.
It said "more than a dozen" emergency calls had been received over the weekend on behalf of people injured while riding in the snow.
And he calls for greater focus on increasing the skills of unemployed people, setting the right balance between universal and means-tested help for pensioners, and the use of DNA technology to cut crime.
And you might also notice that your phone calls always get precedence when there are lots of people on hold.
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One that producers confidently claim has drawn over 10 million calls in one day from people who want to be on it?
Writing in the Independent on Sunday, Sir Richard Branson calls on the Foreign Office to stop issuing travel bulletins advising people not to visit countries affected by terrorism.
"Not many people do house calls, " she says on her way to a checkup on a 2-week old boy -- a visit she is making by car rather than bicycle because it's raining.
Four years away from their homes in the United States with only the most sporadic of overseas mail delivery, no phone calls at all, having to accept on faith that the people who meant the most to them were doing all right.
Engaged sales people are the ones still banging out cold calls on a Friday afternoon.
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There is also what project head Nandan Nilekani calls the chokehold of the "cycle of documentation" on people.
Our law firm receives calls from people looking for legal help in exactly this situation on a weekly basis, at least.
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"You can either get freaked out yourself by these calls or deny that whole aspect of it and concentrate on helping people, " Stange says.
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And he calls on Labour to rediscover its roots as a party of the people, to deal with what he describes as the demands of a far from "normal" political times.
These are kind the principled stands an independent attorney general with honesty and integrity must be prepared to make on behalf of the American people when the situation calls for it.
And yet, what we learned was that when ordinary people come together -- (applause) -- when you believe in something so deeply that you're willing to talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors and talk to your co-workers, knock on doors and make phone calls -- when the American people decide what's right, then all that money doesn't matter.
For young people viewing videos on the internet - there are calls for clearer warnings of unsuitable content.
He again urged people to go vote and make phone calls and knock on doors to drive a huge turnout.
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The paper concludes that "in financial terms alone, older people are no longer special", and it calls on the government to assess the evidence for existing rules on social security, taxation and the design of services.
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