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They have also set up a database to analyze from where calls for help are received so that Riley can reassign police beats to cover the parts of campus most sensitive to crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT SAFER | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

...plan, mandated by University Hall and approved by house masters last month, would reassign nearly 200 current residents of Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Mather and Quincy Houses to the DeWolfe annex. The extra spaces in these houses will be filled by undergraduate transfer students from Dudley House, which will be converted to a graduate student housing facility...

Author: By Chris M. Fortunato, | Title: Students Resist Move to DeWolfe | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

...ignored by the studio he helped build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel lived in reduced circumstances. Katharine Hepburn recalled frequent visits to her longtime friend: "I never knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Family | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official, "we stop doing things we were scheduled to do and divert people elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's The Cure for Burnout? | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...drama began a week earlier, when Namphy attempted to reassign Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, a Manigat loyalist who was indicted in Miami three months ago on drug-trafficking charges. But Paul balked at being transferred to a less important military post, and was backed up by Manigat, who rescinded Namphy's order. Two days later, the President dismissed Namphy himself for "insubordination." Attempting to consolidate his power, Manigat had Namphy placed under house arrest and announced the reassignment or retirement of 37 officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Going from a Sham to a Farce | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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