Beats were sized according to historic call load (large beats where calls for service were rare, small beats in busy areas).
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The New York Police Department allocates a lot of officers to areas that have high crime, receive lots of calls for service and in New York City those are predominantly non-white.
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Switzerland's conscription army is facing an uncertain future, amid calls for compulsory military service to be abolished, and political pressure to keep defence costs down.
Doctors' leaders in Wales backed the calls for an advocacy service funded by the assembly government and regulated by the office of the children's commissioner.
It would be very educational to give each employee a chance to take customer-service calls for a day or join the sales team on a sales call or two.
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One of the reasons Internet use has grown so rapidly is because it is cheap - and it is cheap mainly because, in most cities around the world, there is no per-minute charge for calls to local Internet service providers.
This means that if you purchase a local micro-SIM card (the ones compatible with the new iPad) you can make and receive phone calls on Skype or other VoIP service for about two cents a minute, in contrast to the high cost of roaming voice calls based upon all of the U.S. carriers pricing plans.
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And calls to create a service medal for all military staff were "worthy of consideration", he added.
"I will not let this incident impede my public service and my calls for real mandate relief, a better economic climate and better services for those in need in New York, " the statement said.
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Sony has also included a service it calls iPEG, for Internet Electronic Program Guide, which provides access to an Internet-based TV programming guide.
It calls for training and counseling for families of service members who require long-term care and improved family leave and insurance benefits for family members.
In his interim position paper, Professor Sir George Bain calls for "fundamental reform" of the service and says the first changes should come within the next eight weeks.
Mr Assad, whose forces' killing of 50 protesters overshadowed Mr Annan's announcement, is unlikely to pay more than lip service to any binding calls for him to back off.
She calls for a "new accountability" in public service delivery, devolved to the front line.
In the meantime calls for people to go into engineering are a service to the status quo of management practices, themselves unacceptable to most people.
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Catholic News Service calls him a happy warrior for evangelization.
Plans to introduce a 111 phone service for non-emergency unscheduled calls will be accelerated.
He tells her he's been worried because she's not returned his calls for weeks and she missed LaGuerta's memorial service.
The service did not allow for phone calls from Europe, however.
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It's a goal the government supports, according to its twelfth five-year plan (2011-2015), which calls for an increase in domestic consumption and growth of the service sector by four percentage points.
Ecuador has yet to publicize the remuneration fee it would be willing to pay the foreign firms in new service contracts, but one draft agreement calls for the state to retain at least 25 percent of gross income from extracted oil sales.
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In 2011, it was the slowest service in the country for attending less urgent calls with a response rate of 74.3% from 17, 591 calls.
To combat them, the association is backing another bill, the Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act (S.1192), which calls for a five-year moratorium on new taxes on wireless service, at both the state and local level.
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The Department of Health said it was the second worst service in England for responding to life-threatening calls within eight minutes in September.
The South Western Ambulance Service said it had planned for an increase in calls coming through to them and had planned for it with extra crews on duty.
It calls for offering senior citizens a choice between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and a premium support system that would provide a fixed government payment to help them buy private health insurance.
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