The firefighter making the call had to first push through the crowd to get to a pharmacy and then had to wait for the overloaded telephone exchange lines to clear before he could make the call.
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They toil in factories, stand in currency exchange lines to cash their checks, cram their families into tiny apartments, pinch pennies for a future that is clear and bright even though it seems impossibly far away.
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Matthew Gilbert of the " Boston Globe " depreciated the chemistry between O'Loughlin and Myles as " artificial ", and said that they " exchange lines of dialogue with a stilted rhythm and no natural flow ".
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The under-appreciated Curtis, on hand to host a retrospective of his films, genially exchanged lines from " The Sweet Smell of Success " with one newspaperman in a hotel lobby and told another that Elvis copied his hairstyle.
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The game provided an historic first : When Dusty Baker and Dave Roberts exchanged line-up cards before the game, it became the first postseason game in the Major League Baseball history in which two African-American managers faced one another.
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As a means to obtain an inbound number from another town or region for business use, " remote call forwarding " schemes tend to be far less expensive than foreign exchange lines but more costly than using voice over IP to obtain a local number in the chosen city.
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Remote call forwarding is also a means for a suburban business to obtain a city-centre local number ( with its full large-city coverage area ) for inbound calls; while cheaper than a foreign exchange line, this can reduce long-distance telephony costs in markets where local calls are flat-rated but trunk calls are expensive.
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A 7.1 percent increase in exchange line rentals offset a fall in sales of call and customer premises equipment within the U . K . Business connections rose by 5.2 percent in the quarter, while residential line connections fell by 60, 000 as competitors, mainly U . S .-funded cable television companies, increased their market share.
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A 7 . 1 percent increase in exchange line rentals offset a fall in sales of call and customer premises equipment within the U . K . Business connections rose by 5 . 2 percent in the quarter, while residential line connections fell by 60, 000 as competitors, mainly U . S .-funded cable television companies, increased their market share.
