"We were often angry at each other," Ms. Tobin, 62, recalled And there were communications problems: "We really didn't know how to listen to each other," she said.
The Manhattan borough president, C. Virginia Fields, the city's highest-ranking black elected official, agreed that there are communications problems that Mr. Kerik must address.
Mr. Smith of the miners' union and others insist that there are communications systems that, while not perfect, would be adequate enough of the time to help miners stuck underground.
"I bet if there were communications that Mr Gülen has assisted with wrongdoing, we would know about it," he said, adding that the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has said that no such evidence exists.
Then there's communications bandwidth, once a crawler in comparison.
But if there are communications-crazy teens in your life, and you'd like to keep in touch with them when they're on the go, it wouldn't hurt to learn to type with your thumbs.
"We know there has been communications with clubs.
"We felt there needed to be communications in the marketplace to build awareness" for the program, said Brian Fetherstonhaugh, chairman and chief executive of OgilvyOne.
In the world of non-video communications there isn't much difference.
Despite the very real issues at the heart of this document, it would be foolish to deny that there is a communications issue here.
