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  • Tomorrow morning, I'd wake up, peek out the window: No grim— faced Russian soldiers patrolling the sidewalks, no tanks rolling up and down the streets of my city, their turrets swiveling like accusing fingers, no rubble, no curfews, no Russian Army Personnel Carriers weaving through the bazaars.†   (source)
  • In the Army Air Forces, or AAF, there were 52,651 stateside aircraft accidents over the course of the war, killing 14,903 personnel.†   (source)
  • Instead he placed it inside the patrolman's personnel file, which lay open on his desk.†   (source)
  • Can you find the personnel I need through normal channels?†   (source)
  • Over the next six hours, I was poked and prodded by medical personnel, assigned equipment and uniforms, and lost all of my hair.†   (source)
  • Nikki rushed to the phone and began speaking with the emergency personnel on the other end.†   (source)
  • Several hours later they saw medical personnel remove his body from the cell on a gurney.†   (source)
  • I'm going to need all medical personnel to report with me to the hospital wing.†   (source)
  • The rumors are that only essential personnel and those with medical reasons will be allowed to stay in Saint-Malo.†   (source)
  • Who knows what these people are up to, but we can't waste a second now I'll go tell operating personnel to stand their ground, no matter what.†   (source)
  • There were 16,300 U.S. military personnel in Vietnam.†   (source)
  • I met her in the Personnel Office of the University Hospital.†   (source)
  • Pedestrians streamed toward them while a new batch of media personnel unloaded vans and staked their claim in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Alex hurried across the street, which had been blocked off to cars and was now a triage area for the medical personnel loading students into ambulances.†   (source)
  • The idea is to implant all surviving personnel.†   (source)
  • I don't think there's anyone there who knows my real name, except maybe the people in personnel.†   (source)
  • The girl who answered the phone was new and didn't recognize the name, but she poked around the personnel files for him.†   (source)
  • Riots broke out, crops were burned, Happicuppa cafés were looted, Happicuppa personnel were car-bombed or kidnapped or shot by snipers or beaten to death by mobs; and, on the other side, peasants were massacred by the army.†   (source)
  • An ID scanner was inserted into the frame, but it stayed red when she flashed her wrist before it, so it must have been coded to select personnel.†   (source)
  • The border is guarded constantly by military personnel.†   (source)
  • So you never saw firemen or rescue personnel.†   (source)
  • The personnel officer who hired God.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Hitler has been so kind as to announce to his loyal, devoted people that as of today all military personnel are under orders of the Gestapo, and that any soldier who knows that one of his superiors was involved in this cowardly attempt on the Fuhrer's life may shoot him on sight!†   (source)
  • The estimate of how much a wounded migrant costs the nearest hospital comes from personnel at the Hospital Civil in Arriaga, Mexico.†   (source)
  • In short order, the US Army, which maintains thousands of troops in South Korea, forbade its personnel from flying with the airline.†   (source)
  • That includes terminal personnel.†   (source)
  • There was another flurry of hospital personnel, another stretcher brought to the bed next to me.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Army forked over the death record of Sergeant Sam Shilsky, who died in February 1944, but the details of his service record were gone forever, lost in a fire of army personnel records.†   (source)
  • A waist-high cinder-block wall ran the length of the room, separating the waiting area from the area marked AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY, where several rows of tall metal shelves stood empty.†   (source)
  • Weeks before, Ramiro had received a 10 day suspension from Roberto Clemente High School, a beleaguered school with a good number of caring personnel, but one which was an epicenter of gang activity.†   (source)
  • When we got to the emergency room, doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel descended with IVs, stethoscopes and insurance forms.†   (source)
  • No hospital personnel was in sight: I walked eagerly down the aisles of cots looking from face to face.†   (source)
  • Or coasting, slowly, arms splayed wildly out to the sidcs, chased by nervous security personnel.†   (source)
  • Defense is just a matter of having the personnel.†   (source)
  • There is talk of a botched investigation, suggestions that a change in personnel may be required.†   (source)
  • Besides the tracked personnel carriers there were Hummers and tanks and dozens of support vehicles.†   (source)
  • They rose, singly and in pairs, and fanned out above the city in the reddening dusk, as the sun slipped below the horizon, and the whir of their rotors echoed through windows and down alleys, seemingly compressing the air beneath them, as though each were mounted atop an invisible column, an invisible breathable cylinder, these odd, hawkish, mobile sculptures, some thin, with tandem canopies, pilot and gunner at different heights, and some fat, full of personnel, chopping, chopping through the heavens.†   (source)
  • Some of the ship's personnel showed up and joined us.†   (source)
  • But before that, each of our teams had a crew leader, selected from the most experienced navy personnel among us.†   (source)
  • All of the Chinese personnel and all of the Norwegian crewmen had vanished.†   (source)
  • Against all odds and after countless interviews with UN personnel, Beatrice learned that she and her boys had been accepted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for resettlement.†   (source)
  • A failure to win voter approval on this budget can only mean major problems for programs and personnel.†   (source)
  • Did you try personnel here?†   (source)
  • We were looking forward to seeing Coach Mullen and hoped that our knowing him as well as we did would counter any advantage he might gain by how well he knew our schemes and our personnel.†   (source)
  • He opened a new account in her name, and she was supposed to report it to Milton's personnel office and use it from now on.†   (source)
  • Lou Kasischke, the gentlemanly lawyer I'd met at the airport, had climbed six of the Seven Summits-as had Yasuko Namba, forty-seven, a taciturn personnel director who worked at the Tokyo branch of Federal Express.†   (source)
  • Field personnel will direct them.†   (source)
  • We must have a new nutrition personnel director.†   (source)
  • In all there were five of these counters: three for serving regular food, one for zeks on special diets (ulcer victims, and bookkeeping personnel, as a favor), and one for the return of dirty dishes (that's where the dish-lickers gathered, sparring with one another).†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza felt so ashamed of his own conduct that he took her to the head of Personnel, who gave her the lowest-level job in the General Section, which she performed with seriousness, modesty, and dedication for three years.†   (source)
  • The ratio of support to combat personnel was twelve to one.†   (source)
  • I kept close to storefronts, mingled with technicians and marshals, with uniformed personnel.†   (source)
  • Neil Simms, the personnel manager from IBM, walked through the outer doors, a flash of dark suit, polished shoes.†   (source)
  • I feel that the building and the monkeys should be turned over to the people from USAMRIID, who have the equipment and personnel to handle it safely.†   (source)
  • The number of army and air force personnel stationed in Colorado Springs subsequently grew to be larger than the city's entire population before World War II.†   (source)
  • Then she'd lassoed Fitzy and Mike, so ultimately a personnel change would've been her call.†   (source)
  • Farooq said that his personnel reviews were now highly negative, and that his police career was effectively over.†   (source)
  • An hour later, Jake dealt with the second office personnel crisis of the morning.†   (source)
  • I was Our Lady's Head of Trauma; we were blessed with new resources and more personnel.†   (source)
  • K.B.I. personnel, returning the two men to Kansas, have already left Las Vegas by car.†   (source)
  • The young American president was attempting a deft diplomatic maneuver, hoping to confront a very real threat by not allowing U.S. military personnel actually to take part.†   (source)
  • Maybe Tee was right and she was too sensitive, but there was a big difference between being personnel director for the Board of Education and a first-grade teacher.†   (source)
  • We got a little brass tablet tacked to a piece of maple wood that has printed on it: CONGRATULATIONS FOR GETTING ALONG WITH THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF PERSONNEL OF ANY WARD IN THE HOSPITAL.†   (source)
  • She led me down the Nordic Knickknacks aisle to a big iron door marked: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.†   (source)
  • You have friendly personnel mixed in with hostiles, and you have people yelling at you.†   (source)
  • Most of the Americans interned in the Philippines were military personnel captured in an overseas combat zone, prisoners of war being held by enemy troops.†   (source)
  • They had been arrested and sent to prison for protesting at the School of the Americas, the U.S. Army training center for Latin American military personnel (read: secret police, torturers, and thugs) located in Georgia.†   (source)
  • The trail of cops and official personnel led me down the hall to a set of open double doors marked "Mandarin Suite."†   (source)
  • But when they saw neither placards nor speakers, they ventured outside into the cold: white-coated surgeons, dark-jacketed business and personnel clerks, and three nurses in starched jumpers.†   (source)
  • I am applying for the job listed in this morning's Chronicle and I'd like to be presented to your personnel manager.†   (source)
  • Nearly two years ago, when I had first in-processed into the air base, one of the lectures I'd attended warned about the possibility of women in the local community latching on to air force personnel, particularly air crew members.†   (source)
  • Farmer wrote that "paralysis" and "lassitude" afflicted almost all the medical personnel who stayed on.†   (source)
  • They want everyone to serve overseas at least once, even administrative personnel.†   (source)
  • The school's eldest students, nine ninth-grade boys, studied in the back of a scorched armored personnel carrier that had had its treads blown off by an antitank round.†   (source)
  • Military personnel listening to the flight radio network from the ships could not only see Dollins go down; they could hear his last words into his microphone.†   (source)
  • These three non-SEALs were essential support personnel.†   (source)
  • She turns off the microphone, climbs down from the podium, and hurries over to the huddle of Sacrum Asset Management personnel.†   (source)
  • His name was Alfred Gillette, an expert in personnel screening and evaluation, and was considered by the Pentagon to be bright, vindictive, and with friends in high places.†   (source)
  • But I have some complaints I'd like to file about your personnel.†   (source)
  • I was worried, since I had used Emerson's name without his permission, but when I found my way to the personnel office it worked like magic.†   (source)
  • Assuming all personnel are KIA.†   (source)
  • Then she sent me up to talk to the personnel director, which gave me hope—like maybe I passed the first test.†   (source)
  • Max was surprised to see government security personnel in black suits standing outside the door along with a handful of Rowan Agents.†   (source)
  • He knew this because his employer, the United States Army, was very good at measuring its personnel.†   (source)
  • First, we'll try to see if we can find their personnel office here.†   (source)
  • Have to figure out excuse since this is off limits to any but authorized personnel.†   (source)
  • This area's off limits to unauthorized personnel.†   (source)
  • Fidel Ruiz (on the ground being attended by medical personnel below left) learned firsthand just how fast.†   (source)
  • She just kept talking about the office, personnel and scheduling, holding up the beat.†   (source)
  • Considering the impunity with which they seemed to think they could use guns, the men whom he had encountered must be military personnel or federal agents.†   (source)
  • "Authorized Personnel Only," I read.†   (source)
  • It had been turned over to maintenance personnel just one hour before its scheduled departure that morning.†   (source)
  • Go do the paperwork with personnel!†   (source)
  • I don't think people realize how much equipment and personnel we have to hide when we hunt.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the forts must get more military personnel either militia or federal army soldiers.†   (source)
  • Tyler looked around the extremely empty personnel bay 41816-B of the Glalkod Commercial Transfer Station One in annoyance.†   (source)
  • "You know, I shop this store quite often," Helen told a personnel clerk.†   (source)
  • Make sure you go on the record with Personnel.†   (source)
  • It came about that he was consulted in matters of army organization, in officer relationships, in personnel and equipment.†   (source)
  • With this understanding, black people in Chicago began to make the rounds of such stores, saying in effect that if the stores expected to sell another leaf of lettuce to black people, the stores had to hire black personnel, including black people at management level; and furthermore, they had to bank the proceeds of that particular ghetto operation in black banks which would not discriminate against black people in loans.†   (source)
  • They had said I had a low violence index, which meant they had had access to my personnel file or to Central.†   (source)
  • Shifts of personnel, changes of policy, transfers of the top SS pigs—anything is priceless information.†   (source)
  • We've cleared the area of all civilian and nonessential personnel, and we're encouraging everybody to move their families out of the blast zone.†   (source)
  • He was the official boatman designated to take school personnel from the mainland to Yamacraw Island and he received twenty-five dollars every time he made the expedition.†   (source)
  • There's a terrible shortage of medical personnel.†   (source)
  • Fourth: As a necessary military precaution, I have reinforced our base at Guantanamo, evacuated today the dependents of our personnel there, and ordered additional military units to be on a standby alert basis.†   (source)
  • In Personnel they were testing, checking, and screening the usual mass of job applicants...clerks, craftsmen, specialists, middle bracket executives, top echelon experts.†   (source)
  • These seemed to be offices: park warden ...guest services ...general MANAGER ...COMPTROLLER ... They came to a glass partition marked with a sign: CLOSED AREA — AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT†   (source)
  • Curiously, he avoided the dark, forbidding lair occupied by Personnel, the place where careers went to die.†   (source)
  • I can't be worrying about personnel matters and parking privileges while trying to stop the next attack.†   (source)
  • Special references: Subject A: Personnel $2222; Agency Basic Procedures.†   (source)
  • Have all non-essential personnel been evacuated?†   (source)
  • On his Personnel Action Form, he'd noted that he was "volunteering for oversea service."†   (source)
  • A few personnel were casual, talking idly against a Humvee, smoking.†   (source)
  • This is a recall of all emergency personnel.†   (source)
  • Alex says hello to the security personnel here too, and I admire him for his coolness.†   (source)
  • The Harkonnens relied on turnover from off planet for some of their key personnel.†   (source)
  • The interrogators wanted Louie to tell them the numbers of aircraft, ships, and personnel in Hawaii.†   (source)
  • Railroad personnel and Mayor Carrasco estimated how fast the trains travel in the area.†   (source)
  • We also had a lot of personnel decisions to make, selecting point men and the like.†   (source)
  • Admiral Painter asked me to express his confidence in your group and its personnel.†   (source)
  • This time the director of personnel himself talked to me.†   (source)
  • Medical personnel took Randy directly to the infirmary to ventilate him.†   (source)
  • There's my orders: Terminate all infested personnel.†   (source)
  • More than 30 Ofuna personnel were convicted and sentenced to a total of roughly 350 years in prison.†   (source)
  • No match for trained military personnel.†   (source)
  • THINK WHAT A BLOW IT WOULD BE TO THE PERSONNEL SECTION—HOW THEY WOULD MISS ME!†   (source)
  • The political officer aboard, Valery Sablin, led a mutiny of the enlisted personnel.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we had a great rapport with the ship personnel.†   (source)
  • Our mission is twofold: Destroy or capture all enemy ordnance and terminate all infested personnel.†   (source)
  • And now, Fremen began to appear among the Station personnel.†   (source)
  • The Zeitouns watched every day for signs of any FEMA personnel.†   (source)
  • Detailers are the people in the military who handle various personnel tasks†   (source)
  • When I applied in late May, the personnel director said, "I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • They walked past a dozen military personnel and into the building.†   (source)
  • The submarine was cleared of her personnel and carefully ventilated.†   (source)
  • The sun had disappeared when medical personnel whisked me away to the field hospital.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the Army rolled a tracked vehicle, a personnel carrier, up to the front door.†   (source)
  • By the end of '67, there were five hundred thousand U.S. military personnel in Vietnam.†   (source)
  • We were attacked from the inside, by infected personnel who'd been embedded in the military.†   (source)
  • After thanking Mr. Standart I went back to the personnel office.†   (source)
  • Strykers are heavily armed personnel carriers, and they were firing everything they had.†   (source)
  • Additional personnel didn't really solve my dilemma, however.†   (source)
  • The four captives rode standing, surrounded by the six military personnel.†   (source)
  • A hand-painted sign said PFC PERSONNEL ONLY.†   (source)
  • Then the reporters and the hospital personnel began to clap.†   (source)
  • His references listed his local employer and the head of personnel; no one from Ohio or Colorado.†   (source)
  • Peabody, or someone like her, had cleared it of all but essential personnel.†   (source)
  • You saved our personnel in five or six sector crises when all the indicators said you were wrong.†   (source)
  • The number of clinicians [medical personnel] went from seventeen to ten.†   (source)
  • They're evacuating dependents and all nonessential personnel.†   (source)
  • This involved recruiting new personnel, and continual problems breaking them in.†   (source)
  • All field offices and personnel are to provide any assistance that Agent Cooper may require.†   (source)
  • I cursed him all the way to the personnel office.†   (source)
  • Get me the roster of its entire personnel.†   (source)
  • We had people scour through the personnel records of both firms.†   (source)
  • "Still having personnel integration troubles," Steve said.†   (source)
  • When Personnel take your mug shot, you'll get a permanent badge.†   (source)
  • All navy and marine personnel are about to have their duty tours extended indefinitely.†   (source)
  • I tell you I don't know what it is," they tell the guy in charge of personnel.†   (source)
  • Stu noted that human beings did not mean F.N. personnel; they were urged to stay at desks.†   (source)
  • I called the personnel department at J. D. Blanchard.†   (source)
  • In fact, we don't use any more personnel than we have to.†   (source)
  • They now had the equipment and trained personnel to do some of their own high-tech AIDS diagnostics.†   (source)
  • The chow hall was for JSOC personnel only, but not everyone knew about the mission.†   (source)
  • But you didn't consider Hanoi's own field personnel who had infiltrated Medusa; those records exist.†   (source)
  • Frowning, he said, "Wasn't just personnel records not up to speed with you, Joe.†   (source)
  • And the reality is that over the past fifteen years, SMP's personnel has been reduced by 118.†   (source)
  • We've never had any problems in this office regarding personnel.†   (source)
  • He was partially right, but he had not anticipated an embarrassment of personnel and conveyances.†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1992, rumors began to float of severe personnel cutbacks.†   (source)
  • "Applied direct pressure to wounds until Life-mobile Personnel arrived," he wrote in his report.†   (source)
  • The personnel office hasn't taken a single name off the payroll list since Directive 10-289.†   (source)
  • The site personnel drag the incineration tube to a newly readied pile.†   (source)
  • Then she got confirmation from the SIS personnel department that he was employed there.†   (source)
  • He was a civilian now, as were all of the personnel at DIA's Counterintelligence and Security.†   (source)
  • "The selection of the specific personnel is only a technical detail," said Mouch pleasantly.†   (source)
  • Authorized maintenance personnel are advised to clear the area immediately.†   (source)
  • Director of Personnel Screening and Evaluation!†   (source)
  • Well, the truck was in flames and there was so much confusion radioing for personnel—†   (source)
  • 'Government personnel were also instrumental in saving his life.'†   (source)
  • When it came to managing personnel, Ophelia and Jim had at least one other special handicap.†   (source)
  • DEVGRU assault squadrons are augmented by intelligence analysts and support personnel.†   (source)
  • "If you think your personnel can keep their mouths shut,"we'll rotate them out," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Then some of the personnel from this area can be spared for another vocation.†   (source)
  • Throbbing with anger I followed, listening as he called personnel.†   (source)
  • The personnel office did not take them long.†   (source)
  • His professional judgement is superior to that of most of your more experienced personnel.†   (source)
  • What was your destination when our personnel intercepted you?†   (source)
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