Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amidst the blinking lights, the computers and the shielded toggle switches, dispatchers wait by the phones, ready to respond to anything from a clogged dormitory toilet to a fire in a Harvard museum that houses priceless treasures...
...ideological gulf which separated Hill and Thomas and her perception that he did not respond to her subtle advances combined to feed her resentment and sow the seeds of her revenge scheme...
...moved quickly to set up offices in at least eight flooded states. Regional staffs actually went into some areas before flooding became serious to help state officials apply for disaster assistance. Witt has since started a daily morning conference call with state emergency managers and directed FEMA workers to respond immediately to state requests -- indeed, not to wait until asked but to approach state officials with lists of things that the agency thinks might be needed and that it can supply, such as the water-purification equipment that was delivered to a hospital in Des Moines within 24 hours...
Mara also says McGraw Hill, the New York-based publishing giant, owed Harvard some of the money now controlled by the state treasury. Bill Farley, associate general counsel for McGraw Hill, says he had no information on the case and could not respond to the issue. He suggests that Mara may have erred in naming his company...
...flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many of the dams up for relicensing will be required to take costly steps to help fish reach their spawning grounds and then return. That could mean ladders, lifts, pathways or "trap-and-truck" measures, in which truckloads of fish...