51.   The companies handling the calls going out on the Internet fire back that Bell Atlantic is trying to walk away from contractual commitments and drive them out of business.

52.   The company formally launched international services today and is building a network to handle local calls.

53.   The Internet Travel Network said it stepped up capacity to handle its calls.

54.   The Kansas City Fire Department handled fewer calls Friday than the previous two days.

55.   The officials also cite the minuscule changes in overall response time for fires as evidence that the medical calls can be handled without endangering either citizens or firefighters.

56.   The modem must be capable of handling voice calls.

57.   The problem is so large that they said they were not equipped to handle individual calls.

58.   The same lines that handle calls down the street also connect telephones across the country.

59.   The State Department, which established a hotline to handle calls from worried relatives, received earthquake updates about every half hour from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

60.   The State Department spokeswoman said the number of callers kept increasing while the budget for handling the calls kept getting cut.