Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...help carry out the agreement that will restore the exiled Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency, but late last week the Pentagon seemed to postpone the plan, only to be reversed by the White House. It has also become hard to assess the chances that the U.S. will dispatch 25,000 troops to help police a peace agreement in Bosnia, should one ever be reached. At present the chances are zero. It would be a supreme irony if the brave venture in Somalia winds up by effectively putting the U.S. out of the peacekeeping business. But it would be unwise...
...Anthony Lake recently described China as a "backlash," or antidemocratic, state like Iran, Iraq or Chile under General Augusto Pinochet. So concerned is the Clinton Administration with the deteriorating relationship that Secretary of State Warren Christopher has launched a high-level effort to turn things around, beginning with the dispatch to Beijing this week of John Shattuck, the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. The Christopher initiative promptly ran into an announcement by China that, despite public entreaties from 20 nations including the U.S., it had carried out its 38th atomic-weapons test -- in defiance of an informal test...
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...