"Our weekly iPhone sales continue to be impacted by rumors and speculation regarding new products, " said Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer on the company's third-quarter conference call in July ahead of the iPhone 5 release.

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So we got a chance to listen in on DirecTV's third quarter earnings call the other day, and reflect on some of the comments made by their top brass.

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On Thursday afternoon, Andrew Mason, the chief executive of Groupon, got on a conference call to try to convince Wall Street that the third-quarter financials the company had just announced were not as bad as they seemed.

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On a third call to answer questions, the offer of assistance changed.

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On Monday, while Pandit was hosting the third quarter earnings conference call, Corbat was in New York.

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Brooks spoke on a conference call reviewing the activity in commodity ETPs for the third quarter.

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It has reduced the amount of time customers spend on a call by a third.

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Pakistan, told on Friday they could not call up veteran Saeen Anwar, lost opener Saleem Elahi in the third over, caught off the impressive David Terbrugge.

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On Nov. 28, the discount retailer reported third-quarter results that were roughly in line with the Street's call.

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The third incident happened at Chapman's Pool on the Isle of Purbeck on Sunday when Portland Coastguard took a 999 call from a person who spotted a man stuck in mud.

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