But after Sandy, FEMA and city officials reasoned they could get homes fixed faster if the city hired contractors, coordinated repair requests, dispatched the workers and paid for it all directly.

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But a previous publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, so angered labor leaders with his opposition to unions that John McNamara of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers dispatched his brother James to blow up the Times building in 1910.

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The Emergency Services Ministry said rescue workers have been dispatched.

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Some 40, 000 workers also have been dispatched to the PRC for training and also, perhaps, to help pay for Chinese exports.

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In March 2013 IG Metall President Berthold Huber dispatched a letter addressed to the VW Tennessee workers, urging them to accept a UAW presence.

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And marketing vice president Steve Hanson was dispatched to Mississippi to help provide housing for displaced factory workers.

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Obama headquarters in Chicago is a sea of 20-something workers trying to reach such voters, many of whom have been dispatched to swing states in recent weeks to get supporters engaged.

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