Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime beneficiaries of the American operation are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Yet when the U.S. finally decided to dispatch minesweeping helicopters to the region last week, it was unable to negotiate the right to use bases in those two countries. The choppers had to be transported to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, 3,000 miles from Kuwait. It will take a ship a week to carry them from there to the Persian Gulf...
...intelligence community based in Panama. An ingratiating host, he has allowed U.S. operations to proceed virtually unfettered. Some 10,000 military personnel are attached to the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, Washington's military headquarters and prime listening post for Latin America. From SOUTHCOM, the U.S. can dispatch spy planes to overfly Nicaragua, monitor sensitive communications and military movements in the region and ensure the canal's smooth operation. As Panama's former intelligence chief, Noriega has ( also worked intimately with the Central Intelligence Agency. Says a State Department official: "The general figures his work with the agency...
...teach two dozen other investigators to use the system. Working at 15 terminals tied to an Altos 3068 computer, they fed in data about each fugitive from interviews, rap sheets and computerized files from the FBI, DEA and other government agencies. They learned to query for patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech detectives. "You've got so many decisions to make when you're dealing with paper," explains Wutrich. "Do you file a license plate under one suspect...
...perils of first novelists have been widely, even lugubriously described. The typical sad story can be summarized with dispatch: unresponsive agents, inattentive publishers, small printings, nonexistent publicity, scattered reviews, laughable sales. Sometimes, though, this scenario breaks down. A few first novels are rapturously received, their authors transformed overnight from supplicants to stars. Then, amid the giddiness of recognition, the problem of the second novelist attacks in its most intimidating strain. What to do for an encore is one symptom, but there is worse: the knowledge that the next book, unlike the first, will have the power to disappoint...
...dispatch at the hands of eventual national champion North Dakota two nights earlier had landed the Crimson in this contest, and Harvard was then faced with a pair of awesome responsibilities...