But officials in southeastern Virginia joined their Carolina neighbors in the relief, dismantling emergency operations and buckling down for a storm like many others they have weathered.
Rapidly dismantling its operations on the Continent, Marks & Spencer agreed last month to sell its 19 stores in France to Galeries Lafayette and said it would shut four stores in Belgium and two in Germany.
As the final two entries in "The Hobbit" series complete post-production, Peter Jackson and crew are once again dismantling their operations -- but not before catching Bloom's parting moments on camera.
During the two-year period Calaveras allowed temporary cannabis farms, the local sheriff's department was still busy raiding and dismantling illegal operations, as well as responding to unregistered grow sites where gunfire erupted.
The Harvard University doctors and nurses who ran it were dismantling the operation and getting ready to go back home.
A1 AT&T Shedding Jobs AT&T, after promising to retreat from the residential phone market, has started to dismantle its operations by closing telemarketing and customer service call centers.
There was the warning in 1976 by Ronald Reagan, then a presidential candidate, about the danger of allowing civil-rights-minded "bleeding hearts" to dismantle intelligence operations against domestic terrorists, a warning that foreshadowed similar statements a quarter-century later by George W. Bush and his first attorney general, John Ashcroft.
Yet reading the words "struggle," and "survival" in evolutionary writings, many audiences associated them with war, meritocratic contests, and competition in the marketplace, all of which involve overt and deliberate effort to kill, defeat, humiliate, or dismantle the operations of the opponent.
Even if we manage to destroy their leadership and dismantle their operations, the underlying cause still festers, yearning for a new form to take.
The Nets wasted little time dismantling their basketball operations staff, but they apparently are in no rush to fill the positions left vacant by the reassignment of Michael Rowe, the team's former president, and the dismissal of Coach Don Casey.
