Writers who made up the names of Georgia natives terrorised by giant chickens would be asked to check in the telephone book to make sure they did not exist.

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This did nothing but allow me the honor of installing my contact list back into the on board telephone book.

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Rural Telephone Services in 1992, which struck down the copyright on a telephone book for lack of originality.

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Your local health department, public library, telephone book and the Internet also may be good sources for finding a support group in your area.

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Generally, the only way to book out-of-hours appointments is on the telephone.

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Customers can book a Scooterman over the telephone, who will arrive at the designated time and place on a miniature motorcycle.

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She'll take telephone-book pages and stand them up on the floor to create this snake of pages falling on each other, domino-like.

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Before him came Mr Blagojevich, who is now writing a book that, many hope, will match the eloquence of his telephone conversations.

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The morning queues and engaged telephone lines are evidence of this, as are patients who will book appointments weeks in advance 'just in case'.

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If a customer gripes that its telephone book is light on ink, Daly can look at a report on the print run and, if he sees that the last 1% of the run wasn't dark enough, tell the client to open another box because the rest of the run was fine.

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