Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REAL INSPECTOR HOUND and AFTER MAGRITTE...
Visibly moved by the evident decline of a famous family, the embarrassed agent left, and the subsequent tax settlement was sympathetically small. Meantime, the prince retrieved his priceless paintings and handmade clothes from the portiere, or janitor, who had helpfully hidden them when the inspector called...
...more and more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...
...brought action to achieve that distinction. Across the country, women make up an estimated 1.5% of the police forces, mainly in low-ranking positions. New York's Gertrude Schimmel, on becoming the city's first woman police captain last summer (she has since been promoted to deputy inspector), was asked if she ever expected to see woman appointed police commissioner. She answered: "Only by the first woman mayor...
...schools-and even tried a year of law school. I wore a Tattersall vest. I even wore a hat, for God's sake. Not a red hunting cap, I mean a hat. A whaddyacall it. A fedora. My father used to rate me like a New York pollution inspector: good, acceptable, unhealthy. I became a Good...