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  • Mr. Watts became the top lawyer for Southwestern Bell's phone-book business for two years before moving to its mergers and acquisitions staff in 1988.

    Blindsided and Besieged, AT&T's Lawyer Fights On Anton Troianovski 2011

  • And she added, you could one-by-one unbind the pages of the phone-book to separate them, but in a relationship the married couple is responsible for working together to fix problems, rather than one-by-one taking the phone-books apart again.

    Wedding in Boston bats22 2008

  • At my U I've been trying to organize a revolt to drop the Calculus phone-book MaBell size not the piss-weak modern ones in favor of something from Dover together with our own notes and problems.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • So the new Google Profile appears at the very bottom of the search page, and it basically looks like a phone-book entry.

    Google Me This 2009

  • Eventually, the digital social network will become such a normal part of our lives that having a profile in the ether is as common and expected as phone numbers in the phone book used to be (in fact, people in their teens and 20s are already more likely to look for a Web profile than even consider looking in a giant paper phone-book).

    inkblurt · Flourishing, Friending & the Evolution of “Social” 2007

  • The group titled Wish List/Gloves Off Pewter, though, exposes a specific and ghastly ethical dilemma that apparently played out in a series of 2003 emails: several individuals plead for the army to use more "coercive interrogation techniques" (the literal "wish list" includes, for instance, low-voltage electrocution and phone-book strikes), while one, lone, pacifying voice advises to "take a deep breath and stay on high ground."

    Victoria Lautman: At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting 2009

  • I suspect Ian Bogost has met the same journalists as I do, although I am baffled that they managed to track down Ian, seeing as they can't use google and he isn't in the Norwegian phone-book.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Torill 2009

  • It's very highly likely that even if such transparency is mandated, companies will find ways around it, thereby making phone-book size regulations inevitable.

    Governor Jindals' health care proposal 2009

  • I suspect Ian Bogost has met the same journalists as I do, although I am baffled that they managed to track down Ian, seeing as they can't use google and he isn't in the Norwegian phone-book.

    Dear Expert Torill 2009

  • SEXY VOICE AND ROBO Viz: A phone-book sized collection of terrific stories about a girl who uses her considerable smarts to meddle in the lives of strangers, sometimes at the request of a retired yakuza.

    Manga Before Flowers – “Manga for Adults” (Part One) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

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