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...Second, break-ups between the local operating companies and AT&T long-distance, and the divestiture of Western Electric, which made telephones. Third, mandatory interoperability....
...But as the Thanksgiving deadline approached, lawyers said they were dealing with an “avalanche” of last-minute claims, the vast majority of which had been brought by former inmates against New York prisons...
...“A lot of the WhatsApps you are seeing . . . are exchanges which people could have been doing previously by telephone or in corridors,” he said....
...But sales scams also took place on social media, through email, and over landline telephones....
...Some observers believe the shift could be as momentous as that from corded telephones and landlines to mobile phones. But solid-state battery technology is not without its sceptics....
...high points, notably for the Romanian painter Victor Man whose “Weltinnenraum” (“World Within”, 2017), a haunting image of his pregnant girlfriend, soared above its £150,000 high estimate to sell via the telephone...
...Since taking on his corporate role in September, Cowley has interviewed 130 prison inmates nearing the end of their sentences, and given jobs to about 70. Of those, about half remain Iceland employees....
...The telephone can still be used to order a local taxi . . ....
...The buyer (by telephone) of the 792-page sheepskin Codex Sassoon was Alfred Moses, a Washington DC lawyer, who has donated it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv....
...“Given this robust position in parliament following the ban of TikTok from government phones, it’s now time that TikTok is also banned from ministers’ personal telephones,” he wrote....
...“I represent a private military company,” he tells the inmates in black uniforms surrounding him in a circle. “You must have heard of Wagner?”...
...recently convicted drug trafficker is approached by the FBI with a quid pro quo proposal that involves him being transferred to a facility for the “criminally insane” to extract information from a deranged inmate...
...She was referring to telephone bids made through Xin Li-Cohen, Christie’s deputy chair and a point person for the continent’s billionaires....
...But that pales next to the suffragettes, who broke shop windows en masse, cut telephone and telegraph wires, and set fire to postboxes....
...They designed aspirational furniture for middle-class downtime; one of their first inventions was for a home telephone stand with a built-in bench called The Gossiper....
...The case was connected to a share placement by ANZ in August 2015 and telephone calls between the banks that had underwritten the A$2.5bn (US$1.8bn) fundraising....
...The day after his telephone conversation with his co-founder, Carvalho joined a call with his managers in Europe to find out more about the Covid-19 situation....
...property one that underpinned the 2008 financial crisis, are unproductive, others — such as the 1920s stock bubble, which triggered the Depression but also helped fund and fuel the spread of radio, the telephone...
...“Any private citizen should be aghast that [a bystander to a lawsuit] could be made the subject of a subpoena calling for all their telephone records simply at the whim of a litigant,” Rubenstein’s lawyers...
...“If I’m ever on the other side of the table,” Shah told me, “I’m always going to do a telephone call at the least.”...
...The first two offer plenty of telephone-number sums as New York’s season of sales starts next week....
...There were no prams or high-stacked paintings in the slick 2021 saleroom, where most of the buzz was via the telephone or online....
...On December 15, 1986, workers in the Russian provincial town Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) visited Andrei Sakharov’s dingy apartment to install a turquoise telephone....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 1 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
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