That means unanswered calls and closed offices.
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Every top agent went through unanswered phone calls, canceled meetings and long, unproductive days before succeeding.
In Greater Manchester the entire system crashed, meaning calls went unanswered.
One case involved a patient in the West Midlands who died unexpectedly and there have been reports of calls going unanswered and poor advice being given.
The union claims telephone calls to JobCentres are going unanswered, while people are having to wait hours to see an adviser.
Calls to Oikos University went unanswered Monday.
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In late January, however, their Internet postings stopped and calls to their cell phones went unanswered.
However, it also struggles to cope with the volume of calls it gets - last year it had 2.5m calls with 900, 000 going unanswered.
Several subsequent calls to the cruise line went unanswered.
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Calls to fire and rescue services rang unanswered and hospital administrators said they had no information about the injured.
Saying calls to their cell phones had gone unanswered and bank transactions had stopped, relatives told reporters they feared the worst and asked for authorities to help find the couple.
Calls to the local township police went unanswered Thursday.
Multiple calls to the Jiangsu provincial health department rang unanswered Wednesday.
Telephone calls to the Cape Verdean government and police rang unanswered Friday.
Calls to the store by The Associated Press went unanswered Sunday.
The calls of the Libyan people for help would go unanswered.
Repeated calls by supporters for another presidential run have so far gone unanswered.
Calls to Linyi Prison and Linyi Prison Hospital by the BBC went unanswered.
Hundreds of thousands of phone calls to the new police non-emergency 101 number are going unanswered, figures from forces in England and Wales suggest.
There was no answer at Augustin's home on Monday afternoon, and telephone calls for a number listed in her name at that address went unanswered.
Last year, 15, 000 calls out of 95, 000 made to the Child Protection Helpline went unanswered.
They also said there had been too few nurses, which had often led to his calls for help going to the toilet or for more pain relief going unanswered.
Calls to the prison in Linyi, in eastern China, and to the prison hospital rang unanswered Tuesday, a holiday.
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