Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joshua A. Kaufman sent this dispatch from the safe haven of Roslyn, New York...
Workers within the Cambridge Savings Bank pulled a fire alarm at 2:42 p.m., alerting the Cambridge Fire Department dispatch center on Broadway St., according to fire officials...
Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...
...Friday that he had authorized the army to use "all means at * the state's disposal" to bring the breakaway republic of Chechnya back into the Russian Federation. "The Chechnya question is a Russian internal matter," announced the State Department. But in some American -- especially Republican -- eyes, Russia's dispatch of "peacekeeping" troops to Tajikistan, Georgia and other now independent Soviet republics looks like an attempt to force them back under Moscow's rule. But Russians insist they have a legitimate interest, indeed a duty, to prevent disruption in neighboring countries...
Rightly or wrongly, many Sarajevans lay the blame for the bankruptcy of Balkan policy at the feet of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros- Ghali. Their bitterness and desperation are reflected in the following dispatch by TIME contributor Zlatko Dizdarevic, which was translated by Ammiel Alcalay...