Word: frac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door had been welded shut-from the inside. Behind it, a group of meticulous weekend robbers had pulled off what French headlines promptly dubbed le fric-frac du siècle (the heist of the century). In daring and imagination, it was in a class with some of the best heist movies ever made. The hoods-police estimate that ten people were involved-had used five tons of excavation and safecracking equipment to get at an estimated $10 million in currency and valuables stored in nine safes and 317 of the bank's 4,000 safe deposit boxes. Awed...
...defending giant corporate clients. Ron Pollack is into food for the poor. For the past six years, his Food Research and Action Center has successfully fought Administration efforts to cut back federal spending on food for those who would otherwise have to do without. In the process, Pollack and FRAC (as the center is acronymously known) have forced the Government to free hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of congressionally approved food benefits that the White House had sought to eliminate by Executive fiat. Says Pollack: "Our function is to use the law to feed people...
...uses it with devastating success. Of 150 suits filed in the past half-dozen years, FRAC has won all but four-and three of those losses generated legislative changes in favor of FRAC's causes, while the last may yet be won on appeal. The past few months have been especially rewarding for Pollack and his team. In May FRAC got a judicial order directing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to stop blocking $37.5 million in food benefits for 63,000 elderly citizens. Then came a $125 million victory over the Department of Agriculture, which had been...
...against foot dragging on food programs by 26 states and the Agriculture Department. "I was arrogant," he now concedes. But, proceeding with careful research and thorough preparation, he won 25 of the 26. These legal triumphs helped him get a $250,000 federal grant in 1970 to start FRAC, which is now supported by a host of religious and foundation sources. Pollack's work has won him respect from supporters and opponents alike. Justice Department Attorney Mack Norton, who has faced him in court and lost, says, "With Ron, we have to work a little harder." Adds Marshall Matz...