Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single audacious individual grabbing humanity by the throat. But Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Napoleon all started near the center of the world they set out to conquer. Not too long ago, Saddam would have been a peripheral nuisance -- a pirate or a warlord meriting the dispatch of an expeditionary force from some imperial metropole...
...democratic forces in the country pointed out, the dispatch of paratroops to Lithuania last month was first justified in the same way -- as a limited move against draft dodgers. Yet it quickly turned into a bloody assault against pro-independence demonstrators that claimed the lives of 14 people...
...invasion of Kuwait last August knocked this comfortable quietism sideways. Kohl and Kaifu struggled to live up to allied expectations, but each soon found himself in a political minefield. Kohl had to back off from a suggestion that German soldiers might legally go to the gulf. Kaifu proposed to dispatch troops to noncombat support roles well behind the lines; Japan erupted like a reactivated Mount Fuji...
...city's taxi industry is centered around four main cab dispatchers, which own or provide radio dispatch service to the 248 medallions that work the city. But according to Cavellini, the large fleets of company-owned taxis which still patrol the streets of metropolises like Boston and New York have become a part of Cambridge history in the past decade, as drivers work to reap more financial gains through individual ownership...
Many articulate opinions were still being expressed in favor of the war effort. Gerald R. Thompson of Chesterfield, Mo., wrote in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The crisis in the gulf is driven by economic realities, not just political ideals. Black gold, or Texas tea, is worth shedding American lives for because oil is the blood that flows through the veins of the American economy. Without economic freedom, our political freedom is in serious trouble. The two go hand in hand...