Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years ago, MCI Communications was approached by two eager entrepreneurs with an offer to take a 20% stake in a risky venture. Their plan was to transform a local radio-dispatch system, used primarily by taxicabs and truckers, into a state-of-the-art cellular-telephone network. MCI declined the $40 million opportunity, preferring to concentrate on its core business: long- distance service...
...grand plan may not go altogether smoothly either. In Nextel, MCI is buying into promising but yet unproved technology. To rebuild the dispatch system, called specialized mobile radio, or SMR, into a communications network that can compete with cellular, Nextel and its partners will have to invest at least $1.8 billion. And even then there is no guarantee that SMR will be able to match or catch cellular, an already proved technology with about 13 million subscribers. In addition, cable and phone companies are developing so-called personal communications networks, or PCNS, a futuristic portable-phone service that is expected...
...broke the lead villain's body -- snap! -- over his knee. In Under Siege, by far the snazziest of Seagal's films, he got to smash Tommy Lee Jones' head through a computer screen. Faced with a bunch of thugs in Hard to Kill, he used his fatal grace to dispatch all but the gang leader, then tossed his weapon aside to give the gun-toting goon a sporting chance. Talk about your Zen machismo; he lets the bad guys shoot first because he knows they can't shoot straight...
...purposes, now that the IAEA surveillance equipment installed at the nuclear sites has run out of film and battery power. Pentagon officials caused jitters in Pyongyang by telling reporters they were weighing plans to reinforce the 37,000 American soldiers stationed in the South, deploy Patriot antimissile batteries or dispatch some aircraft carriers to bolster Seoul's army. "We are responsibly thinking about every conceivable thing that could happen, bad and good," said Clinton, after a briefing by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and other senior defense officials...
...supply request from the field to be answered; the U.S. Army, by comparison, generally responds in 14 to 21 days. Eight procurement officers were suspended from duty in July, accused of favoring a helicopter company in letting bids; they say they were just trying to act with dispatch. Budgets languish in a labyrinth of competing bureaucracies, and once expenditures are approved, the U.N. rarely receives more than 30% of peacekeeping assessments from member states within six months of fielding an operation. When the Yugoslav mission expanded to cover all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.N. was under such financial pressure...