31.   At another firm, workers checked their voice mail to find a message notifying them that they were unemployed.

32.   At some point the reporter learned access codes to voice mail received by Chiquita executives, and began listening to their private phone messages.

33.   Being phone-dependent and enticed by new technology, I swapped out my answering machine for phone company voice mail several years ago.

34.   Besides fax machines and voice mail, units have California closets, VCR, sound system, safe and an ironing board and iron.

35.   Better yet, get your point across and avoid a dialogue by calling when the recipient is unlikely to be in the office and leaving voice mail.

36.   Beepers and voice mail are the primary way she communicates with her friends.

37.   Before fax machines, voice mail and e-mail, people anticipated there being some delivery time in a transaction.

38.   BOB MERRILL is crazy for voice mail.

39.   Better than a pager, the Tenor works like a portable answering machine or portable voice mail.

40.   Both companies make circuit boards and software that enable computers to handle telephone services such as voice mail and public messaging.