Would you like to see that, would you call for that?

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Suggesting that RIMM is a takeover target certainly sounds like a heroic call, but seriously, do you really think any of the companies on that list would buy RIM?

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"You don't get many call-outs like that - we were working to the limit of our capabilities, " she said.

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One of them is the call rejection patent (US 6253075), another is one that details a way to control call status like hold, end or what have you (US 6070068).

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It'll let you make an emergency call (like most GSM phones) but that's all.

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One alternative you could consider amid the global uncertainty is a stock-replacement strategy, where you sell stocks that you like and buy in-the-money or longer-dated call options on those same equities.

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You could call this ostrich-like behavior but Maneker astutely points out that this is what publishers are good at: moving huge volumes of books by authors that got royalty cash splashed all over them.

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You begin to think like nature, in terms of building blocks that are fashioned into what I call sustainable materials platforms that can be used flexibly by many different products, and even by different companies.

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Call it a glorified foot rub if you'd like (and what's wrong with that, anyway?), but the theory goes that different points on the foot correlate to different parts of the body--and that reflexology, which involves each of these spots being massaged, can provide a kind of holistic X-ray of a person.

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