41.   Emergency workers and military personnel had to find a way into work but phones went unanswered from offices of Congress to the public affairs operation at the Pentagon.

42.   Finally, the phone goes dead.

43.   In previous years, her phone went dead.

44.   Radios and satellite phones were distributed in case the regular phones went dead.

45.   That leaves little for a cellular phone maker to do besides pick a chip to use, write software and decide what the phone is going to look like.

46.   The call ended when the phone went dead, immediately preceded by the possible sound of a shot being fired, police said.

47.   The phones go off in shops and restaurants, although some elite establishments have imposed bans.

48.   The phone went dead a short time later.

49.   The satellite phone went out near Gibraltar, cutting off the steady stream of e-mail messages the ship had been sending ashore.

50.   Then the phone went dead.