21.   Directory assistance is a modern wedge between the haves and have nots, ridiculously punishing people who do not have PhDs in mazeology.

22.   Directory assistance is easily centralized anywhere, and skeletal installation and maintenance staffs will increasingly be supplemented by contract services, says Sheth.

23.   EASIER DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE For people who live in the New York City area, using directory assistance has just gotten a little easier.

24.   Ever try to find the address or phone number of a friend or relative in another city, but directory assistance was of no help?

25.   Erin L. McKelvey, a technology executive in Maryland, is no fan of directory assistance, either.

26.   First computers wormed their way into directory assistance, asking for the city and then spitting out requested numbers after a human operator intervened.

27.   Fritze said he used phone books, operator directory assistance and online services such as CDB Infoteck and AutoTrack that people can be traced through.

28.   He had just read the essay in one of his textbooks and, on impulse, dialed directory assistance, seeking my name.

29.   I dialed directory assistance.

30.   I call New York directory assistance.