Word: guarding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They appeared to catch the Crimson defense completely off-guard...
...sitting on a concrete stool in a concrete booth with windows made of reinforced glass. When he was first led in, his wrists were handcuffed behind his back. Facing forward, he squatted down so a guard could remove his cuffs through a slot low in the door. This is how things are done at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colo., where he has been since last spring and may well remain for the rest of his life...
...Forget about it," the bartender advises. "It says right in the Times story that the man is such a nut about security that boaters who get too close to his dock in East Hampton may get told to buzz off by a guard with a submachine...
...when government subsidizes empty desecration, devoid of any intellectual or artistic value, the state itself is making that determination--and this is the very evil a neutral First Amendment was supposed to guard against. So proponents of the mayor can still support his tough stand on a painting that callously juxtaposed the scatological with the divine, right? So it seems. Until, that is, they learn that Chris Ofili is a Roman Catholic who uses elephant feces as a symbol of fertility. On what possible grounds can we then deny funding to his affirmative interpretation of Christianity...
Examining costs alone, Harvard made a smart decision to outsource. But it also raises concerns among students who wonder if the SSI guards are making a living wage. While SSI, as a private company, does not have to release its hourly wage to the public, by most accounts it is below the Harvard guard wage, and it is unclear whether or not its guards receive benefits...