Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turkish proposal to send helicopters and cranes. An American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Claude Frechette, who arrived shortly after the earthquake, says he was told by a Soviet doctor in Yerevan that his help was not needed. "The problem is there is no central organization at Yerevan to dispatch people and equipment," Frechette said. "No one knows what anyone else is doing. Information passes simply by word of mouth...
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of the Hillel Society at the University of California at Los Angeles, described the proposed law change as "contrary to the humanistic, open and tolerant Israel that we love." Natan Sharansky, famous Soviet ex-dissident, said, "Principles were being auctioned off with dizzying dispatch. It was not a pretty sight...
Since then the Armenian Republic has been paralyzed three times by widespread work stoppages protesting the Kremlin's refusal to countenance a border change despite the violence committed against Armenians next door. Twice the Soviet government has had to dispatch troops to Yerevan to quell disturbances. Last July a boy was killed by a plastic bullet and 36 people were wounded during a confrontation with soldiers at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport...
This summer I worked as a sports writer for the Richmond Times Dispatch. My assignments were varied: auto races, tennis matches, golf tournaments, minor league baseball games, even a bass fishing tournament (more than 15,000 people filled the Richmond Colisium to view the weigh...
...speed and volume. When a highway becomes clogged, controllers can adjust the timing of stoplights on the on-ramps to reduce the flow of vehicles. In Virginia traffic supervisors use remote TV cameras installed along stretches of I-66 and I-395 to spot breakdowns, to which they immediately dispatch tow trucks that dispense free gasoline if a motorist needs it. Chicago's highway authority operates a huge mobile crane, dubbed Mad Max, that can lift up to 60 tons, and has moved obstacles ranging from semitrailers to a 500-lb. runaway...