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  • Via the group the Chinese also have an interest in an office development in London known as the Walkie-Talkie, which will not open until 2014 and will then need time to be let.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • 'Our customers are very connection-centric, which means they use their phones to not only talk, but also to send texts, find sports scores or weather on the mobile Web and instantly connect with people via Walkie-Talkie, which is why we offer all these unlimited services in our popular all-you-can-eat plan, 'said

    unknown title 2009

  • Even if the Walkie-Talkie, scheduled to be completed in mid-2014, only achieves current average City rents of £ 52.50 per square foot, the development will yield 7.2%.

    Betting on London's Soaring Skyline Ren 2010

  • The decision by Land Securities, Canary Wharf Group and Chinese and Qatari sovereign wealth funds to invest £ 500 million ($785.1 million) to build the "Walkie-Talkie," an eye-catching concave-sided 37-story skyscraper, is a big vote of confidence in the City of London.

    Betting on London's Soaring Skyline Ren 2010

  • They're amazingly bulky, as such gizmos were in those days, and they're the film's connection to a true story, the so-called "Walkie-Talkie Robbery" of September 1971, in which Scotland Yard was alerted to a crime in progress by a ham radio operator who happened to pick up suspicious crosstalk between two of the thieves.

    'The Bank Job' 2008

  • Backcountry.com: The Goat » Blog Archive » Walkie-Talkie Watches wrote

    Walkie Talkie Wristband Watch 2007

  • Nextel you get 900 min with unlmited nights, weekends & Unlimited Walkie-Talkie.

    Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Cingular: The Fewest Dropped Calls* 2006

  • But the worst part was we sat there for 45 minutes of calm weather with the fire department showing up and everything and all we could hear over the Walkie-Talkie was the computer shut down and after half an hour they overrode the computer.

    CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2004 2004

  • Police briefly detained Tsvangirai after a pre-dawn raid on his home Friday, saying that he failed to produce a license for the shortwave Walkie-Talkie radio that he used to communicate with his personal security guards.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Saturday that police had taken him into custody over alleged illegal use of a Walkie-Talkie radio.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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