Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police review board cleared the officer involved earlier this fall. The civilian review board is still considering the case...
Teenagers, however, say they don't report their experiences to the police department's internal review board nor the civilian review board because they are either too scared or don't believe that reporting these officers will help...
...police officer would rather commit perjury than admit [to committing police brutality] to a civilian review board," Lyons says...
There is an alternative: planned conversion of our military-industrial capacity to production for civilian use. Let the defense firms, workers as well as management, figure out what else they could produce, while the rest of us figure out what we could use. The late Congressman Ted Weiss's Defense Economic Adjustment Act shows how to go about it, as does the fine new book Dismantling the Cold War Economy, by Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken. The possibilities are endless: high-speed transit systems, waste-disposal technology, high-tech machinery that we now (like any Third World country) are forced...
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city's downtown district, costing insurers $300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: $1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida and Kansas. They cost insurers a combined $700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing $1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty...