He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

A study at the Pentagon and at the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

In dealing with these frequencies, the objective listed first above -- provision of service to all listeners -- was predominant ; ;

In 1947, affidavits were filed with the Commission by various clear-channel stations alleging that extensive interference was being caused to the service areas of these stations during daylight hours, from class 2, stations whose signals were being reflected from the ionosphere so as to create skywave intereference.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

The Istiqlal was still firmly united in 1957, but the P.D.I. ( Parti Democratique de l'Independance ), the most important minor party at the time, objected to the Istiqlal's predominance in the civil service and influence in Radio Maroc.

* Austrian Service Abroad, provider of alternative Austrian national service

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

A completely new revision was finished in 1929, and several alternative orders of the communion service and other services have been prepared since then.

Attempts by the Presbyterians led by Richard Baxter to gain approval for an alternative service book failed.

The five to 15-year plan intends to add service along the southwest, southeast and northeast sections of Columbia and develop alternative transportation models for Boone County.

Some former CCC sites in good condition were reactivated from 1941 to 1947 as Civilian Public Service camps where conscientious objectors performed " work of national importance " as an alternative to military service.

* in the form of compulsory military service or work done as an alternative by conscientious objectors,

There is however a water taxi service operating from the Eastern Shore into Hobart which provides an alternative to the Tasman Bridge.

* On December 29, 2008, ICQ press service distributed a statement characterizing alternative clients as dangerous.

In many cases these were levied in the absence of any actual military campaign, which ran counter to the original idea that scutage was an alternative to actual military service.

About two-thirds of young Swiss men are found suitable for service, while alternative service exists for those found unsuitable.

Commencing on 17 August 1903, it was the first successful British railway-run bus service and was initially provided as a cheaper alternative to a proposed light railway.

UMTS and GSM / EDGE can share a Core Network ( CN ), making UTRAN an alternative radio access network to GERAN ( GSM / EDGE RAN ), and allowing ( mostly ) transparent switching between the RANs according to available coverage and service needs.

However, the United Methodist Church also supports and extends its ministry to those persons who conscientiously choose to serve in the armed forces or to accept alternative service.

" Novell criticized Microsoft's Active Directory, the new directory service architecture, as less scalable or reliable than its own Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) alternative.

When Holmes begs for an alternative, the commander's aide suggests that Holmes resign his commission " for the good of the service " and leave the Army, which the general accepts with dispatch.

Dillingøy is known as a place for alternative non-military civil service.

In some parts of the world, the emergency medical service also encompasses the role of moving patients from one medical facility to an alternative one ; usually to facilitate the provision of a higher level or more specialised field of care but also to transfer patients from a specialized facility to a local hospital or nursing home when they no longer require the services of that specialized hospital, such as following successful cardiac catheterization due to a heart attack.

The term " serial number " is also used in military formations as an alternative to the expression " service number ".

Changing the system to eliminate the balance between public and private service providers to a completely public system is one such alternative.

MPR's third service, 89. 3 The Current, debuted on January 24, 2005, and airs an Adult album alternative format.

The MX mechanism does not grant the ability to provide mail service on alternative port numbers, nor does it provide the ability to distribute mail delivery across a set of unequal-priority mail servers by assigning a weighting value to each one.

The new board's first act was to take applications for " second " television stations in Halifax, Montreal ( in both English and French ), Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in response to an outcry for an alternative to the CBC's television service.