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  • A free Employer Insurance Packet is available for you to share and review with your employer.

    Insurance Coverage 2010

  • Do not believe the Internet dictionaries that treat the verb as an acronym for Packet Internet Groper, a Unix utility that accomplishes the above test but sounds to me like an odious new form of sexual harassment.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Do not believe the Internet dictionaries that treat the verb as an acronym for Packet Internet Groper, a Unix utility that accomplishes the above test but sounds to me like an odious new form of sexual harassment.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Our favourite IP connectivity tool; I love the name Packet InterNetwork Groper!

    Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010

  • Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif., company that offers a similar low-cost service for small businesses called Packet 8.

    Internet Phone Service Gets Plush 2008

  • In July 1972 three engineers left BBN to form a company that would market a commercial network called Packet Communications Incorporated.

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

  • In July 1972 three engineers left BBN to form a company that would market a commercial network called Packet Communications Incorporated.

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

  • Pictou, and in summer a small schooner, called the Packet, sailed with the mail, and what few passengers presented themselves, between the capital and the same port.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • The Packet was a beautiful ship, of about three hundred tons burden, originally intended as a regular trader between Boston and Liverpool; but in consequence of her superior qualities was purchased on the termination of her first voyage for this expedition to the north-west coast.

    Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

  • James with the utmost fury in a weekly journal entitled the Packet of

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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