Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesus Christ. She pulled out her rosary beads and told him God had sent her to make the arrest. "You use whatever you got," she says. When it looks as though a cop may be overpowered, the appropriate response for any officer -- male or female -- is to call for backup. "It's foolish for a cop of either sex to start dukin' it out," says Susan Martin, author of On the Move: The Status of Women in Policing...
...professional progress. He denied the charges. But many women still fear that complaining about such treatment carries its own risks. Beverly Harvard, deputy chief of administrative services in Atlanta, says a female officer would have to wonder "whether she would get a quick response to a call for backup later...
...need for a second guard, a backup to Jared Leake at point guard is pressing. Now, when Leake sits down, Rullman shifts to the point position...
...comeback trail as a jazz diva, she combines the emotions of Billie Holiday with a personal delivery rooted in her own poetic lyrics. Never has her talent been better displayed than on these 10 songs, five of them from her own pen, featuring outstanding backup work by the late tenor-sax great Stan Getz...
...North House production of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, a Nigerian comedy by Ola Rotimi, is generally amusing but suffers from a weak backup cast and unassertive direction...