The service first offered broadband data capabilities, familiar push-to-talk features, rugged and reliable handsets, and a broadening push-to-talk coverage map.

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And when you talk to people who are familiar with his thinking, they say he hasn't been convinced yet and he's not likely to be, at least at the moment.

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Garland, on the other hand, needs to talk, to get the market familiar with this giant new company.

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He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.

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H-P's internal team was aware of talk about accounting irregularities at the time the deal was struck, people familiar with the matter have said.

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To help Culbertson and his two Russian crewmates, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, get familiar with their new job site, NASA scheduled time for the new crew to talk to the departing crew.

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He has sought and usually received similar of control in other IPOs, arguing that it is more efficient for clients to talk to one bank than to run things by committee, other people familiar with the matter said.

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When Vinod Khosla was considering an investment in YuMe, he told Kadambi that he was less familiar with the video advertising space so he asked News Corp (NWSA) CEO, Rupert Murdoch, to talk to Kadambi.

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