Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before heading off for weekend furloughs or checking in from work, residents press their right forefingers against the machine. "It's much more expedient than the body checks we had in prison," says a resident. For the facility's manager, Bari Caine, the system is an excellent way to keep track of 84 residents and a high-turnover staff. "We can't always expect every staff member to know every resident's face," she says...
Fraudulent telemarketers are particularly hard to catch because they tend to keep their operations small. The typical setup is a "boiler room" in which a dozen or more employees reading from sales scripts feverishly work the phones, contacting hundreds of potential victims a day. Thousands of boiler rooms are located in the Sunbelt states stretching from Florida to California. At one point, so many sprang up in part of Fort Lauderdale that federal investigators dubbed the area "Maggot Mile...
...tough new legislation. Utah and Florida have enacted laws against delivering deceptive sales pitches by phone. California set up stringent new licensing requirements for telemarketers. New York is considering a law that would give consumers three days to cancel a telemarketing purchase. But, say law-enforcement officials, the crooks keep inventing new schemes to ensnare unsuspecting people who pick up the phone. For now, the best defense is to keep in mind an old saying that covers any kind of deal: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably...
Even so, prosecutors were determined to keep Adams in jail, discounting Harris' statements as the rantings of a condemned man. (Harris is on death row for a 1985 murder.) But on March 1, an appellate court unanimously threw out Adams' conviction, finding that the state was guilty of suppressing evidence favorable to Adams, deceiving the trial court and knowingly using perjured testimony...
Accidents usually accelerate John Irving's antic plots and keep his readers tuned for what happens next. A Prayer for Owen Meany takes a somewhat different approach. Framed by the myth of victim as redeemer, the book removes guesswork without reducing expectations. One knows going in that the mischievous author is staging a kind of "Gospel According to Charlie Brown." But anyone familiar with Irving's mastery of narrative technique, his dark humor and moral resolve also knows his fiction is cute like...