The main switchboard was answered at noon one day with a recorded message saying office hours were from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.

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According to the news agency, 20 different phone lines were tapped, including not just work phones and the AP's main switchboard, but also the journalists' home and cell phones.

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