These relationships are maintained by telephone, in a network of reciprocal favors that spans the country.
The AT visited the patients during the first week after discharge, while contact afterwards was generally maintained by telephone calls to the patient, the closest caregiver, or representatives from the primary health care, at least once a week during a follow-up period of four weeks.
DuMont struggled to get its programs aired in many parts of the country, in part due to technical limitations of network lines maintained by the telephone company AT&T Corporation.
She has maintained sessions by telephone with her therapist back home every two weeks.
When Nixon became president, his aides urged him to sever the relationship with Dr. Hutschnecker, but the two men maintained contact by telephone, and Dr. Hutschnecker twice visited the White House, ostensibly to discuss national issues.
However, many Afghan journalists he speaks to by telephone maintain that his voice has not changed at least in the past year, suggesting he is a single individual, as he — or his persona — has insisted.
Liaison with higher commands was at first maintained by regular post, telegraph and telephone.
The local police are so mistrusted that, when families fear that one of their members may have been trafficked, they don't normally call the authorities, who may be assumed to work with the traffickers, but, instead, a telephone hot line maintained by a small N.G.O.
The dealer then queries the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database maintained by the FBI via a toll-free telephone number or through the NICS E-Check System online (in a handful of states the dealer contacts the state police who in turn contact NICS).
Participating physicians were identified through the following sources: (a) physician directories maintained by local European medical associations and (b) local physician telephone directories.
These increases were generally maintained by 16 weeks, although participants in the print-plus-telephone group maintained slightly higher levels of global reported activity and walking (by approximately 30 mins/wk) than those in the print group.
