Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 75 percent of the 240 city taxi licenses, Suozzo could "put the squeeze" on medallions, raising prices, and offering them to other owner-operators at high interest rates, cabbies said, adding that Suozzo would also dominate the only radio dispatch network in the city...
...Tommy" of that popular calypso song is Barbados Prime Minister Tom Adams, 53, whose 1979 decision to dispatch friendly troops to the nearby island-nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines moved one local songwriter to tuneful protest. Adams' aid to his neighbor enabled St. Vincent to send its own security force to suppress an uprising on outlying Union Island. Now, almost five years later, that Barbadian intervention still upsets many in the usually placid eastern Caribbean. Adams is sensitive about the matter too. Boots has been banned in Barbados...
...English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over the wire, all doubt was removed. "I deeply regret that because of temporary causes, I will not be able to attend the session of the plenum," wrote Andropov. He went on to explain that...
...snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some enterprising director will not put that on celluloid some dark and stormy night. ("The cucumbers, he sensed, were acting strange...") None of the books has arrived onscreen with as much dispatch as Christine...
Devo: Love Without Anger (Gerald V. Casale). The syncopated anarchists of rock postmodernism use animated Ken and Barbie dolls and humanoid chickens to dispatch a characteristically acid valentine...