Gulfstream's fastest private jet, the G550, features wireless LAN and a satellite communications system for telephone calls, plus there's a DVD player, two LCD screens and temperature control within the cabin.

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For America's telephone companies, there is a crude solution and an elegant one.

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When there is no ambulance to answer a pensioner's anguished telephone call, as sometimes happens in Yubari, the consequences become all too clear.

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And then suddenly, after only a month's wait, there was telephone call from the OVIR office informing us that the visas were granted and we should come and collect them.

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Telephone poles lean to one side, and there's a strong smell of sewage.

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"If you compare our relationship with Mexico today, for example, with several years ago, there's no question that we're stronger today, " Clinton said in a telephone interview last week with the Los Angeles Times, the San Antonio Express-News and The Dallas Morning News.

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There was no answer at Augustin's home on Monday afternoon, and telephone calls for a number listed in her name at that address went unanswered.

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"The reason we sell vinyl is that there will always be a market for it, " the band's lead singer later explained via telephone (he identifies himself as Dom but won't reveal his full name "until I pay all my bills").

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While common sense says that those who spend work hours popping out to the store for a new pair of shoes or surfing the Web for personal use probably cost employers something in lost productivity, there's no definitive proof that employee "downtime" is any more prevalent than it was a generation ago, when telephone and watercooler banter was in.

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