Eventually mossy rocks give way to dense hedgerows, coloured with foxgloves and buttercups, then a red telephone box.

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One man calls home from a telephone box because he cannot afford a mobile phone.

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Half an hour later she was spotted in a telephone box, presumably trying to find a lift home.

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Det Con Campbell agreed that the 999 call had been made from a telephone box in Helensburgh and confirmed that it was to provide information in relation to the fire at Scott Court.

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What might be more unsettling to exhibit visitors is how nostalgic they might feel for the accoutrements that dot the recreated Westwood-McLaren's Kings Road shop, Clothes for Heroes, in London, including a heavy-handset telephone, cassette tape and big-box TV set.

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"Two years ago, there were grand plans to have a very expensive set-top box in which everything was converged - the telephone, the internet and the TV, " said Mickey Kalifa, UK general manager of OpenTV, which makes the software sitting inside many set-top boxes.

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Dell and Gateway have changed the way computers are sold by allowing customers to configure their own systems, by telephone or over the Internet, and simply shipping them the box.

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His orgone-energy accumulator, or orgone box, as it became known, resembled a wooden telephone booth lined with metal sheeting and steel wool.

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Shortly after he arrived as chief executive officer in July 1993, he gave the go-ahead to develop a supercharged digital box to serve a new world of fully interactive video networks to be built by the regional Bell telephone companies, Time Warner and others.

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