But now, a decade later, President Barack Obama is not answering their calls for help.
Romney missed an opportunity by not answering the question with the prediction made by Jobs.
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Hillary Clinton was always very good at not answering questions by dismissing it as hypotheticals.
"Some people... get the twitches because they're not answering it, " Ms. Stack says.
Other branches in north-west England were not answering their phones over the weekend.
I've spent my career as a mainstream journalist, but what is important here, and what you're getting at, is they are not answering the question.
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Gartner, another research firm, said this week that failing to communicate with customers on social networks could be as damaging to companies as not answering phone calls or e-mails.
Or are they just not answering his calls?
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After the Rangers' 3-2 loss to the Devils on Wednesday night in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Tortorella spoke fewer than 40 words in answering six questions or, in some cases, not answering them.
When Max left to take the bus to the museum by himself, many shows would have dug in for maximum drama: father blaming daughter, father screaming at mother for not answering her cell phone, Max melting down.
The plane was in the air for another 45 minutes after radio contact was restored, meaning that if the recorder was working properly, anything the pilots would have said during the time they were not answering radio calls would have been recorded over.
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Answering questions from a reporter is NOT like answering questions from a friend, colleague, boss, employee, investor or family member.
But I do not want my client answering questions not understanding exactly what these folks are talking about.
He said his worst experience was with a man who grew angry at him for not quickly answering his desperate questions about his wife and 10-year-old son.
The reconstituted Bureau of Ocean Energy Management would prefer not to keep answering the the overlooked oversights of the old Minerals Management Service.
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Lerner said in a Friday conference call that she "did not feel comfortable answering" as to when senior IRS officials became aware of the situation.
On the question of what platform has the highest future revenue potential. 64% cited iOS, 5% said Android and the rest were undecided or did not feel comfortable answering the question.
She would not leave me a message on my answering machine because she did not want to be charged for a phone call.
The crisis has caused a communications logjam in Washington this week, with officials being swamped with requests for comment and not returning calls or answering e-mails.
If called to testify, Gupta would most certainly take the Fifth (right to deny answering so as not to incriminate himself).
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Of course, Harriet Harman will be answering the questions not probing the Tories (though she's likely to attach a barb or two to her replies).
Watch this space, as they say, for more as we continue to insist that the easy questions are usually not the ones really worth answering.
Of course, answering these questions does not matter unless those local leaders want the benefits that Kendall Square is getting from these capital flows.
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Responding to the report, Mr Straw pointed out that he had put the donation onto the Parliamentary record - if not the register of interests - when answering a question from Mr Wallace in 2006.
According to Bishop, his normal practice when effecting trades for his client was to leave a message on her answering machine when he could not reach her directly informing her of the trade he proposed to make.
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Messages left Thursday and Friday on an answering machine at Newton Salvage were not returned.
It is the legislative branch and not the courts that is the proper institution for answering these questions.
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