Word: escort
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Grosz said there is hope for progress. She points to some reforms the University has implemented since the 1990 report. For example, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has begun an escort service and parental leave policy, she said...
...staff than any President in memory. Then there are the rumored slights, both real and imagined: a woman believed to be a member of the White House staff refused to speak to a top aide of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (true); Chelsea Clinton refused a military escort (false); Clinton does not intend to use Bethesda Naval Hospital (he has not yet made clear where he will seek medical care). "It's not any one thing that makes us distrust Clinton. It's the accumulation," says a Navy officer. "At a certain point, every little thing starts to be viewed...
Earlier this academic year, the department experienced severe problems with its radio and telephone systems. In December, the department lost one of its radio channels, forcing the escort service, parking office and security office to use the same channel, according to department employees. Several security guards interviewed in January said the radio logjam might hurt their ability to respond in an emergency...
...crowd from the balcony of the local post office, assuring them he would remain until help arrived. "I have decided to stay," he shouted through a megaphone, "to calm your anguish and try to save you." He proclaimed the post office his command post, called his 13-man escort to attention and, amid a burst of cheers, had the U.N. flag hoisted...
...radio message to his Sarajevo headquarters, Morillon termed the situation "unbearable" and said "people are dying right in front of me." On Friday, his frustration boiled over. He drove to the border and demanded an end to the stalling. He accepted Serbian terms that he travel without his escort of two Canadian armored personnel carriers and headed back to Srebrenica in his command car -- followed this time by the trucks of the relief convoy...