Word: attachment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jail? Tell him I will work with him in any way I can to help him straighten this out." Final pause. "But if I find out where he' s working and he hasn' t called, I won't give him the courtesy of a phone call. l'll attach his wages." James hangs up. He's good: people he wants to pay up, usually pay up. That makes their ex-wives and their children happy...
...worst nightmare. I'll be on him like a new coat of paint." They employ standard investigative techniques, but once they find their man, they have more resources than the average bill collector. Armed with a court order, investigators can often convince authorities to garnish wages, attach bank accounts or even foreclose on real estate. The provisions passed by the House last week could "give us additional tools to work with,'' Hoffman says. Sometimes the collectors simply shame the deadbeat, plastering his neighborhood with wanted posters or--in a case near Fort Worth--posting his name on a highway billboard...
Smokers are twice as likely as non-smokers to have damage to a critical gene that helps protect the body from cancer, according to a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are speculating that the carcinogens in tobacco smoke attach themselves to the p53 gene's genetic material and disable the cell, causing mutations. TIME medicine writer Christine Gorman said, "This is the smoking gun. All of the evidence is overwhelming. . . Unless you are a tobacco executive there is no doubt that smoking causes cancer...
...Radio Shack and other stores sell devices called "ferrite cores" or "filter chokes." These little boxes attach to wires and absorb interference...
...recent months, violence-ridden cities from New York to Los Angeles have enjoyed sizable decreases in crime in general and murder rates in particular. Part of the explanation is that federal agencies like the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have shrunk their headquarters' staff to attach more agents to local police. FBI Director Louis Freeh credits ``safe streets'' campaigns in 117 communities for reducing crime rates by breaking up street gangs...