Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most use- of-force reports were all men. Civilian complaints against women are also consistently lower. In San Francisco, for example, female officers account for only 5% of complaints although they make up 10% of the 1,839-person force. "And when you see a reference to a female," says Eileen Luna, former chief investigator for the San Francisco...
...want you to think CCC, FDR, WPA," Brown said, referring to the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration, two programs designed by Roosevelt to battle the depression...
Some firms are beefing up their civilian operations to soften the loss of military business. McDonnell Douglas is phasing out production of such lucrative aircraft as the F-15 Eagle fighter and the AV-8B Harrier fighter- bomber. To help take up the slack, the St. Louis-based firm agreed last year to join forces with Taiwan Aerospace Corp. to build a new generation of commercial jetliners. At the same time, overseas contracts and proposals to modernize McDonnell Douglas military aircraft now in service could salvage additional jobs on the firm's production lines...
...with sophomore Katie Phillips and Co-Captain Heather Harris sitting out in civilian garb, the healthy players must overcome fatigue and carry the team until the injured return...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney responded by arguing that the ban on homosexuals applied only to military personnel and not to civilian officials in the Pentagon...