Word: desks
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...reduction, and you gave me 17. Last year you accounted for 60% of the national crime decline--all from one city. You proved that police can change public behavior. For that you should be proud." Bratton pauses, then snaps, "Now get your feet off the desk. It's 1996." In the new year, he says, he wants an additional 10% reduction--more than even Giuliani expects. If he gets it, New York's crime rate will be half what it was five years ago. That, he says later, "should show the criminologists who refuse to give police credit...
...further Balkanization of the mass-entertainment market, as the movie, book and music industries turn out new products designed to exploit each sufficiently lucrative ethnic niche. Says McMillan: "I told the executives at the studio, 'Watch and see after the holidays how many scripts you have on your desk about middle-class black people who go to the grocery store and live regular lives.' There are going to be a lot more films too, because this is America. It's trend oriented." Unfortunately, if the black-oriented romance novels that came to market after McMillan's well-written book struck...
Anti-viral startup disks may be obtained from House User Assistants or from the Science Center Help Desk located in the basement of the Science Center...
This year the House passed all but one of the reforms that make up the G.O.P.'s Contract with America. Only three, however, have been signed into law. The rest have yet to make it to the President's desk. A progress report...
...When the police came and opened the door, I saw a really tiny fire on the desk," Stoltzner said. "I thought there was something plastic burning on the desk. It looked like it was on the keyboard...