It also owns varied stakes in over 50 different telephone, paging, cable and radio businesses in Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
But they use materials like BB's, telephone book pages, Lotto tickets and dozens of tiny wax tables.
Mr. Agius, the national sales manager for SBC Directory Operations, the big San Francisco-based publisher of telephone Yellow Pages, estimated that he had flown about 150,000 miles on business since last September.
R.H. Donnelley Corporation, the publisher of 600 directories including telephone yellow pages, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors to reduce debt by about $6.4 billion amid mounting losses.
The courts have ruled, for example, that the telephone white pages cannot be copyrighted because the only arrangement involved is alphabetical.
Many of his works cry out with his prose poems and letters from his children in English and Hebrew, the words boldly printed over images of maps, foreign guidebooks and telephone book pages, a pentimento of distant and vanished worlds.
He would surely be pleased to learn that one of his New York contemporaries, the Chinese-born painter C. C. Wang, who is now in his late 90's and uses telephone book pages for his daily calligraphy exercises, had to struggle for years to break free from calligraphy itself -- so tied to the realities of language -- to become an abstract painter.
And FWIW, telephone yellow pages and other local print media have both companies beat hands down as adult service ad venues for South Carolina.
"An actor's performance, when fixed, is copyrightable if it evinces 'some minimal degree of creativity... no matter how crude, humble or obvious it might be,' " Kozinski wrote, quoting a 1991 Supreme Court decision on telephone white pages (hint: they're not entitled to copyrights).
The use of the telephone white pages is used extensively for cross sectional telephone surveys in Western Australia.
