Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overtaxed gendarmerie by offering extra protection to merchants and homeowners. The 1899 city charter legitimized the freelancers and brought them under the official umbrella of the police department, but kept them in business. The "Specials" report to local precincts, wear regulation blue, carry guns and nightsticks. They follow all the rules imposed on regular cops and wield most of their powers-unlike other private security agents such as the Pinkertons, who have to call a policeman if they want to make an arrest...
...This should not be considered an elimination of the moratorium on capital punishment. It's more a case of cooperative judicial suicide where the state assisted a man in killing himself," Dershowitz said. He added he didn't know if more executions would follow...
Does Mr. Schorr really believe that society is to blame for a ruthless and moody convict who told his attorney that he once avenged a friend by attacking another inmate with a hammer, leaving him paralyzed? Does Mr. Schorr sincerely feel that "Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime" when Gilmore by his own admission "didn't just kill him for the money"? "I just hate to be told what to do. It [the murder of the motel manager] was something that couldn't be stopped" (New York Times 11/15/76)--because, Mr. Schorr would have...
...first American venture, San Antonio's morning Express and the afternoon News, Murdoch again showed little interest in politics. Neither paper staffed the state or national political conventions, although each sends sportswriters as far away as Seattle to follow the Spurs, the city's pro basketball team. Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black...
...initiating the pattern her heroines now follow, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing. After three years at the University of Ceylon, she horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter. Two years later she married a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." Unhappily, says Rosemary, he often sprinted after other women. At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at. One day a middle-aged multimillionaire offered her a fancy flat in Paris...