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...cost of what are called "extreme weather and marine" satellite phones from one of the two premier global providers, Iridium and GlobalStar, is $1,200 per unit. The cost of calls per minute is $5. Total cost for phones comes to $60,000 based on each team of pirates having two phones, and all of these probably get replaced each year due to damage. Assuming 100 minutes a month per phone and the total cost of airtime...
...letter from the IRS, answer the letter. If you get a phone call, talk to the person on the phone, it's their job to try to resolve the problem. And be more or less honest on your taxes. In fact, I'd err on the side of overpayment...
...subtle, it took a long time to wake up to the fact I'd become a different person. When I first started, there was no way I would call someone on the phone and pretend to be someone else. By the end of it, I was perfectly willing to pick up the phone and pretend to be someone's high school classmate in order to find a taxpayer...
...Ward acknowledged that he has only a "very small command" - headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany - to deal with Africa, and not a soul on Somali soil. But things are getting better. "Every day improvements are made," Ward said. "I count it a victory when I can pick up the phone or send an e-mail and it goes to the same address, and we are getting more and more that way." (See the top 10 audacious acts of piracy...
With that in mind, the Obama Administration on Monday lifted restrictions on Cuban-American family visits and remittances to family members in Cuba. It also announced measures to get broader cell-phone and television service to Cubans, which White House officials said would "open the flow of information" on the island. Either way, many hope Monday's moves will eventually lead to a dismantling of the trade embargo. But the moves should at least be followed this year by an end to the travel ban for the rest of the U.S. population - that is, if Obama throws his support behind...