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Because his first priority is "safety, safety and safety," Riordan said, he plans to beef up the 7,800-member police force immediately with overtime pay, the transfer of desk officers to patrol, and more reservists. The 3,000 additional officers he has promised later will be paid for by streamlining other city departments, leasing the airport and privatizing some services. No new taxes, he vows, because Los Angeles "has already taxed itself out of the competition for new business...
...became dean, I can tell you without reservation that among the most important friends of [the School of Public Health] from outside our school's alumni are alumni of the Harvard Business School, many of whom were introduced by John McArthur," Fineberg continues. "So, I say, where's the beef...
...first billion, BGH ran into a major roadblock: Rifkin. The activist has campaigned against everything from the space shuttle to beef consumption, but his single biggest beef is about genetically engineered food products...
Plots eventually intrude in both books -- a jail term in Social Disease, a heist at L.L. Bean in I'll Take It -- but these are as unwelcome as the roast beef a heedless hostess might plop on Paul's dinner plate. The M&M's of bon mots are the real nourishment. Which suggests a criticism of Rudnick's prose: it's all candy. Wouldn't a truly serious author hang crape on Guy and Venice, or Hedy and her sisters? But Rudnick sees them as variations on the Addams family: they may be crazy, but they have...
...Rainbow Curriculum was a grotesquely inept and ill-conceived program, or so many education experts have said. The school boards, however, did not object on the basis of educational theory, for few board members have even an iota of expertise in this area. Their beef with the program, and hence with Fernandez, stemmed from their visceral moral objections to homosexuality...