She said anyone with queries about the national minimum wage could call a free pay and work rights helpline.

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This job seeker wanted my advice about sprucing up her online applications and in particular, how she could get employers to reply to her queries.

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"She was crying and sat down and put her head in her hands, " said nurse Doyle, who added that despite "repeatedly" asking what happened to the youngster, she "got no response" to her queries.

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However, she confirmed that the DNC has received scores of telephone queries from Jewish Americans saying they had never donated to politics but now wanted to do so.

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In some cases, she says, companies that have used chatbots to handle online queries have found that when confronted by verbal abuse or sexual innuendo, the chatbots were programmed to respond inappropriately in kind, with insults of their own.

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The senator had to fend off some queries that were from left field (or right field, in this case) but she also blew openings to advertise.

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