Directory Enquiry Calls Reveal 2008 Consumer Trends.

M2 Presswire;  November 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ......November 2008-118118: Directory Enquiry Calls Reveal 2008 Consumer Trends(C)1994-2008...comparative records of more than 140 million calls made during the corresponding periods Results Summary Leisure --Calls for Sex Shops increased 1,312% --Calls...

If you are calling for C. Lyons, Rory Lyons or Anna Conda, youve been made...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 25, 2008 ;     460 words ......bats taking prank calls for the likes of...many as 5,000 hoax calls a day. In just two...victim of a hoax. Dublin Zoo marketing manager...received 13 such calls aminute. She said...phone: Welcome to Dublin Zoo, if you are callingto...the hugeinflux of calls had caused ...

Did Farah's killer make 999 calls on her mobile phone?

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  November 20, 2005 ;     543 words ...Byline: JANE SIMPSON A SERIES of 999 calls made from the phone of murdered mother...killer, it was revealed last night. The five calls, which were not passed through to police...get help. However, the recordings of the calls, which last for more than five minutes...

Calls to NHS 24 soar over holiday season as bug hits public

The Scotsman;  January 4, 2007 ;     350 words ...CALLS to the NHS out-of-hours helpline soared over the Christmas...Over the eight-day festive season, NHS 24 answered 93,436 calls, compared with 81,583 in 2005-6. During a normal week, the service would expect around 24,000 calls. NHS 24 bosses said staff had coped "fantastically" with...

Call records show low-profile names Thompson's lines bore few calls to...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ...A Journal Sentinel review of calls made from phones in Gov. Tommy Thompson...newspaper examined records of nearly 4,000 calls made from all five phone lines assigned...and his car-phone line were reviewed. Calls from his private line from the governor...

As temperatures increase, so do calls to dispatchers

St. Joseph News-Press;  April 22, 2005 ;     347 words ...Calls to emergency dispatchers are increasing right along with the temperatures. Calls flooded the city communications center, located inside the...who manages the communications center. The center handles calls not only for city police, but also the Fire Department and...

WIN A FAMILY PASS TO DUBLIN ZOO.(Competition/Offers)

The Mirror (London, England);  March 31, 1999 ;     182 words ......today your IRISH MIRROR has the perfect trip - a day out at Dublin Zoo, the place that caters for everyone from eight to 80. And in association with Dublin Zoo, we have TEN family passes that allow you to spend any...tortoises which have been great additions to the park. Dublin Zoo ...

Kissing Bug has this zoos problem licked... Thick-skinned: The Kissing Bug...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 6, 2007 ;     332 words ......just what they have done. Zookeepers at Dublin Zoo are so in awe of the ugly looking creepie...operation. Leo Oosterweghel, director of Dublin Zoo, saidyesterday: Our keepers dont want...Wuppertal Zoo inGermany. On a recent trip to Dublin Zoo, Mr Stadler said that his team had ...

Calls for Police Up 11%; Officers Feeling Time Pressures

The Washington Post;  March 22, 1990 ;     590 words ...Calls for county police service jumped by 11 percent last year...previous year. Last year county police responded to 171,183 calls for service, 16,766 more than the 154,417 made in 1988...percent drop from the 7,535 arrests made by police in 1988, the calls for service largely dictate the way officers use ...

State congressmen get a flood of phone calls, e-mail Impeachment issue...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 16, 1998 ;     534 words ......deluged with the heaviest volume of telephone calls and e-mail they've ever experienced. The...of La Crosse reported that the number of calls was higher than any experienced so far...office said there was a heavy volume of calls, especially at the district office in Milwaukee...

It's sleep time at Dublin Zoo.

Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  February 29, 2008 ;     119 words ...It's sleep time at Dublin Zoo New-born babies sleep a lot and baby elephants need lots of sleep...them. They are pictured snuggled up on a soft carpet of sand at Dublin Zoo. The sleeping elephant in front is Yasmin, the zoo's 17-year-old...

I know they say political life is a jungle... Habitat: Elephants' new home...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 29, 2007 ;     239 words ......mark the arrival of anew rainforest home for the elephants of Dublin Zoo. As TDs finish up in Leinster House next week, Mr Ahern will...first ever elephant birth in Ireland occurred on May 7 and Dublin Zoo hassince organised a national competition to name the new...

Festive-style pregnancy test for Dublin Zoo rhinos

Belfast Telegraph;  December 19, 2007 ;     151 words ......on the hormone levels of Ashanti and Zanta, authorities at Dublin Zoo - who are hoping to breed the animals - added blue and silver...method of testing the hormone levels in the rhinos,'' he said. Dublin Zoo has sent a sample of Ashanti's droppings to a laboratory for...

88 calls a minute ring unanswered at Government helplines

Yorkshire Post;  December 10, 2005 ;     554 words ...Rob Waugh MORE than one-third of calls to Government helplines - a total of almost 120 million calls - have gone unanswered in the past three years...figures released yesterday. Some 119,072,302 calls to lines offering help on issues including...

Strings attached to taxi fare hike City may require they take more calls...

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 14, 2004 ;     621 words ...Calls for taxicabs from chronically underserved Chicago neighborhoods...seriously thinking about" increasing the mandate to two radio calls a day in exchange for Chicago's first cab fare increase in four years. With the rate of unanswered calls rising along with the demand -- from 7 percent in 2001 to...