1.   And teachers and parents can avoid the constant rounds of phone tag by simply leaving e-mail messages for one another.

2.   After some phone tag, he told me to come to his New York apartment.

3.   All summer long, Dragon spokesman Brad Eaton and I played phone tag.

4.   But how can two people ever fall in love when they spend their lives playing phone tag?

5.   During the drawn-out game of phone tag that ensued, I marveled at how this rich and famous Somalian stunner actually handles her own PR.

6.   For something really important, we can leave a phone message for the teacher but then we play phone tag.

7.   He and the prosecutor played phone tag for that day and the next.

8.   He regularly uses e-mail, which has improved his busy life by eliminating games of phone tag, he said.

9.   Mayor Elzie Odom played phone tag with Giuliani Tuesday as they began to barter for bets through their staffs.

10.   Most of their contact lately, though, seems to amount to phone tag on answering machines.