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Greek and phone
In the Greek telephone tapping case 2004-2005 more than 100 mobile phone numbers belonging mostly to members of the Greek government, including the Prime Minister of Greece, and top-ranking civil servants were found to have been illegally tapped for a period of at least one year.
The use of Chinese elements to form words in Japanese is akin to the way that English and other European words are formed using Greek and Latin elements, known as classical compounds, such as the English word " telephone ", which was created from the Greek morphemes tele (' far ') and phone (' sound ').
The name " Epiphone " is a combination of proprietor Epaminondas Stathopoulos ' nickname " Epi " and " phone " ( from Greek phon -, " sound "/" voice "), as well as a play on one meaning of the word " epiphany ," namely a sudden inspiration frequently presenting itself as supernatural in origin.
On 12 March 2010, Gretchen Morgensen in the New York Times discussed TPG's role as a private equity investor in Greek mobile phone operator Wind Hellas, formerly TIM Hellas, which filed for bankruptcy protection late last year.
Acrophony (; Greek: ἄκρος akros uppermost + φωνή phone sound ) is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system so that a letter's name begins with the letter itself.
The term phonestheme ( or phonaestheme in British English ) was coined in 1930 by British linguist J. R. Firth ( from the Greek φωνή phone, " sound ", and αἴσθημα aisthema, " perception " from αίσθάνομαι aisthanomai, " I perceive ") to label the systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language.
The term geophone derives from the Greek word " geo " meaning " earth " and " phone " meaning " sound ".
Troy Communications already owned the third largest Greek mobile phone provider WIND Hellas, which was known as TIM Hellas until 5 June 2007.

Greek and service
Former head of Greek intelligence service Leonidas Vasilikopoulos said they had received information from their agents in Turkey that Turkish agents or others were involved in the forest fires on Greek islands.
* Hellas On-Line, a Greek Internet service provider
Similarly, the Greek ( hippeus ) is commonly translated " knight "; at least in its sense of the highest of the four Athenian social classes, those who could afford to maintain a warhorse in the state service.
Built in the Brucheion ( Royal Quarter ) in the style of Aristotle's Lyceum, adjacent to and in service of the Musaeum ( a Greek Temple or " House of Muses ", hence the term " museum "), the library comprised a Peripatos walk, gardens, a room for shared dining, a reading room, lecture halls and meeting rooms.
A monopoly ( from Greek monos μόνος ( alone or single ) + polein πωλεῖν ( to sell )) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity ( this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry ).
Marcus Aurelius ' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.
The M110 was exported to a number of countries and remains in service with two NATO armies — the Greek and the Turkish.
In 1988 ferry service was established between Sarandë and the Greek island of Corfu.
A Matins service, before the Holy Sepulchre | tomb on Good Friday at a St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | church in Chicago.
Foveaux was taken back into active service in 1811 and promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of the Greek Light Infantry ; he pursued an uneventful military career after that, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Richard Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (" integrated work of art "), for example, was intended as a return to the ideal of Greek tragedy in which all the arts were blended in service of the drama.
Students can opt to participate in Student Government, Union Board, The Tech Talk, Louisiana TechTV, Lagniappe, Greek, religious, honor, service, spirit, intramurals, club sports, pre-professional, and special interest organizations.
Virginia Tsouderou, who became Deputy Foreign Minister in the Mitsotakis government, and journalist Giorgos Karatzaferis ( later the founder and leader of a right-wing party, LAOS ) claimed that terrorism in Greece was controlled by Papandreist officers of Hellenic National Intelligence Service ( the Greek security and intelligence service ), and named Kostas Tsimas ( the head of EYP ) and Colonel Alexakis as two of the supposed controllers of 17N.
Examples of this practice can be found in the Bible ( such as David's service to King Saul ), in Hittite and Egyptian art, and in Greek mythology ( such as the story of Hercules and Hylas ), philosophy and literature.
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary, maenads are depicted as corrupted human beings in service of the ancient and powerful Greek vampire Kakistos, whose name means in Greek " the worst ", the natural superlative of kakos meaning " bad ".
*, a Greek coaster in service during 1966
The familiar sense of the word is an extension of the technical term in ancient Greek, leitourgia, signifying the often expensive offers of service to the people, and thus to the polis and the state.
Telidon ( from the Greek words τῆλε, tele " at a distance " and ἰδών, idon " seeing ") was a videotex / teletext service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre ( CRC ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
An antiphon ( Greek ἀντίφωνον, ἀντί " opposite " + φωνή " voice ") in Christian music and ritual, is a " responsory " by a choir or congregation, usually in Gregorian chant, to a psalm or other text in a religious service or musical work.
One of Delta Kappa Epsilon's focuses within each Chapter is on community service in addition to the social aspect that goes along with most social Greek fraternities.
The army must be composed only of professional native Greek soldiers, who would be supported by the taxpayers, or " Helots " who would be exempt from military service.
On their return a few years later, Andrew saw service in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ), but the war went badly for Greece, and Andrew was blamed, in part, for the loss of Greek territory.

Greek and is
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.
I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.
But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.
Throughout the Dark ages, it is clear, the Greek world had been developing slowly but consistently.
Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.
( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.
Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.
To have the Greek paper is not the great help that at first flush it seemed.
It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.
Alaksandu could be Paris-Alexander of Ilion ", whose name is Greek.
The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.
Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".
However, the Greek tradition is referring to the existence of vapours and chewing of laurel-leaves, which seem to be confirmed by recent studies.
However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.
This is the Greek ideal of moderation and a virtue that opposes gluttony.
Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

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