It is so much easier to just pick up the phone.

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Just pick up the phone or go online and you can buy all the gold you want within a few minutes without ever leaving your chair.

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Just pick up the phone, it is included.

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Just pick up the phone and call.

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Simply tap a friend or family member's contact card in the People Hub, or just pick up when the phone rings.

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But again, you could pick up the phone, just like I can pick up my phone in the office and relay you, April.

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They just can't pick up the phone and lobby their old colleagues for at least a year.

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This is especially true in the complicated pas de deux of work e-mails -- you can have a long volley to figure something out (a plan, a meeting, a detail, whatever), or you can pick up the phone and just hash it out.

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He just kept saying why wouldn't you pick up the phone, why would you put that stress on me?

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