Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumer-electronics store, somebody got hold of my name and vital numbers and used them to get a duplicate card. That somebody ran up a $3,000 bill, but the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it with steely digital dispatch. (I filed a short report over the phone. I never lost a cent...
...Ramseys' actions raised eyebrows among legal experts, who saw the moves as a way to capitalize on tension between the Boulder district attorney's office (which last week said it would dispatch a top assistant D.A. to consult with the FBI in Quantico, Va.) and the besieged local cops. Then too, the Ramseys' well-funded search might have another motive: it could serve the couple well with a future jury pool if one or both is ever charged in court...
...much value bound as unbound. The Constitution gives Huang the right to remain silent, but not to avoid a trip to the Capitol. If Thompson wants to compel Huang's appearance, all he needs to do is issue a committee order and, if necessary, get a judge to dispatch U.S. Marshal escorts to Huang's California home. And that would be only the opening act of a great political play...
...nation, besides the road," says Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy. That search took our journalists last week to high schools, truck shops, bowling alleys and bars. They explored a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a doll factory, an FBI lab and a two-alarm fire. The first dispatch from the Greyhound appears in this week's issue. Look for our full report next month...
...National Public Radio (NPR); Uri Berliner of the San Diego Union-Tribune; Christine Chinlund of the Boston Globe; Philip J. Cunningham, a free-lance writer based in Tokyo; Cara DeVito of NBC news; Joe Hallinan, a national correspondent with the Newhouse News Service; Julia Keller of the Colombus Dispatch; Phillip W.D. Martin of WGBH Radio; Bryan Rich, senior international producer of Common Group Productions based in Burundi; Joe Rodriguez of the San Jose Mercury News; David Turnley of the Detroit Free Press; and David Welna...