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Government Market. A lengthening roster of companies are racing to take advantage of an expanding market. Of these, New York City's I.B.I. Security Service may be the fastest-growing security firm in the U.S. Started in September 1967 by two ex-detectives and a former reporter for the New York Daily News, it now has 1,000 employees and reported revenues last year of $2,100,000. Spreading out, I.B.I, has already sold franchises in Miami and Minneapolis. Like many security companies, it goes in for all varieties of protection -uniformed guards, undercover detectives, police dogs, electronic alarms...
Shaw's mile time was his fastest ever outdoors-and the fastest collegiate mile ever run in Louisiana-but McCurdy said, "That didn't really surprise me. The guy is so capable and had such a good training session at the tag end of the winter season that his time was not totally unexpected...
ROYCE SHAW'S 4:02.8 mile was his fastest collegiate mile ever run in Louisiana. Shaw and his Harvard teammates passed up Jamaica this year to compete in the South...
...police mystique," Bard has written, "places its highest value on a masculinity usually defined by toughness, imperviousness to feelings, and a tight-lipped readiness to neutralize conflict by a quick draw in the middle of Main Street." Until very recently, getting into a gun fight was the fastest way for a New York patrolman to win promotion. Family crisis intervention, in contrast, has been largely unrewarded...
...turn up some odd results. Harvard Researcher Ann Carter has been measuring the efficiency of various U.S. industries by gauging the amounts of capital and labor needed to produce a dollar's worth of glass, insurance, hotel service and so on. By these purely statistical standards, efficiency is rising fastest in the telephone and telegraph industries, among others. Even auto repair is rated moderately efficient...