Word: dispatching
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...original Doom told a rather disposable story about a space Marine posted to some kind of high-powered research facility on Mars. An experiment goes wrong, yada yada yada, and a portal to hell opens, flooding the station with demons, which the player must dispatch with an assortment of high-caliber weapons. Doom 3 tells the same story but this time treats it with surprisingly artistic tenderness. Carmack's light engine allows the game's designers to paint the story the way a film director would, with light and shadow, like a noir mystery. Scenes are lit by broken light...
Fans of the wildly popular band Dispatch had better be ready. It’s all coming down in one fell swoop...
...ultimatum to the U.S.: If it did not pay him fresh tribute, he threatened, he would declare war on America. The new Commander in Chief coolly decided to let the ultimatum expire and take the declaration of war at face value. He summoned his new Cabinet, which approved the dispatch of a naval squadron and decided not to bother Congress--which was then in recess--with the information. He did not, in fact, tell the elected representatives of his plans until the fleet was on the high seas and too far away to be recalled...
...South Koreans remain evenly split on the troops issue. Nearly 50% oppose the dispatch, according to a recent television poll?down from 56% earlier this year?while 48.5% are in favor. But Kim's gruesome death has already transformed some opponents of the deployment into angry supporters. Marketing expert Kim Eun Kyung, 27, objected to helping with the war, saying, "It felt like we were a puppet of the U.S." But now, she says, "I want us to send a lot of troops. I want to get revenge...
With my maps and the Internet, I had become Daddy OnStar. Like the satellite service available on high-end General Motors cars, I was standing by 24/7 to pinpoint locales, list available services, check distances and dispatch help in case of trouble...