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...department's short-comings in the administration's eyes was its inability "to get the appointment of a senior professor." This judgement is unfair. Since 1989 the department has made three outstanding junior appointments. This shows that given the opportunity the department is capable of handling appointments with dispatch and excellent results. The decision on the senior appointment in linguistics was not assigned to the department. Rather, it was vested in an inter-departmental committee appointed by the dean, which, from what I have been able to discover, operated inefficiently and in the end failed to agree on a candidate...
Considerable portions of the 29 Garden St.police headquarters recently have been, orcurrently are being, renovated. Upstairs, there isa new dispatch and communications area.Downstairs, work is being completed on a newholding area, which will have two spacious"holding rooms" complete with glass observationwindows...
Fire alarms are just one of the hot topics with which the control center is involved. Workers there also control heat for the University's buildings and dispatch staff members for emergency building repairs...
...more it rains and the more it floods, the more I think God is trying to tell us something. Recently Missouri and Illinois have allowed riverboat gambling on the Mississippi River." -- Judy Martin, Alton, Illinois, resident, in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...city's agony has moved the U.S. to dispatch 30 military aircraft, including A-10 attack planes and helicopter gunships, to Aviano Air Base in Italy. Without being specific, a Pentagon spokesman said the deployment gives NATO the muscle to take action in Bosnia to protect U.N. forces struggling to deliver humanitarian aid "if the U.N. gives the signal." The allies, he said, are agreed on the mechanism and procedures, and the targets have been selected. "We know how to do the job," said the official. "The ball's in Boutros-Ghali's court...