Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote: "Most city and state police agencies are still not equipped to deal effectively with clever, well-financed conspiracies that extend across city and state lines . . . Besides, coordination among law-enforcement agencies at all levels is frequently weak or totally absent...
Even in the absence of official dishonesty, law enforcement has often proved inept. Most city and state police agencies are still not equipped to deal effectively with clever, well-financed conspiracies that extend across city and state lines. The FBI is better trained, of course, but its special agents hardly constitute a national police force, and were never intended to do so. Until...
...Clever country corn with contributions from Guests Conway Twitty and Jerry Lee Lewis...
...substitute to the British Olympic trap team. Finally persuaded to race at Charterhall, where Clark had made his start several years earlier, Stewart finished third. To fool his mother, he says, "I snuck out to race under the nom de plume of A. N. Other. I thought that terribly clever...
Rent control protects some tenants somewhat against rent increases, though which tenants are really helped and the extent of their protection remain unclear. It does tend to hurt landlords, though clever speculators can usually find a way over, under, or around such a law, creating a black market in housing. It hampers new construction, and consequently reduces a city's potential tax base (and the amount of money it has to spend)--but the time needed for major damage to new construction is primarily guesswork. On paper, rent control laws are an added weapon for building code enforcement, but they...