"I have a box, when can you come pick it up, where do you want me to meet you, " other chitchat -- that's a lot of talk for a call that lasts one minute or less.

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"If I'm competent enough to juggle my accounts and my family, then I can definitely make my own dinner reservations--or pick up a new toothbrush if I happen to forget it, " says Hawke.

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And so since I know I can always pick up the phone and talk to him, that it's not necessary for me to spend huge amounts of time other than just getting business done when I'm here.

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The teacher took us to the practice range, put the balls on the tees, and gave 6 or 7 iron clubs, saying that anyone who can hit over the net, I think it was about 70 yards away, did not have to pick up the balls that day.

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