Word: locks
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After his TV appearances on Tuesday, O'Grady was admitted to the hospital at Andrews Air Force Base. His feet were still raw and inflamed from six days of exposure in his soaked pilot's boots. Scott would remain "under lock and key" for what Air Force officials said was an indefinite stay...
...this lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key era, however, it is hard to drum up sympathy for poor, often minority, often guilty defendants. "In the war on crime," says Nicholas Chiarkas, Wisconsin's state public defender, "many people think of public defenders as representing the enemy." John Holdridge, director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project, agrees. "This is the most unpopular issue around," he says...
...feeds them. Media-company executives and major stars contributed heavily to Clinton's 1992 campaign and to Democratic coffers generally in last year's congressional elections. Even so, the Democrats appreciate the potential power of the cultural-pollution issue and hope to position themselves prominently before Republicans get a lock...
Using a strategy Arthur calls "target, leverage, link and lock," Microsoft proceeded to convert dos users to Windows users, Windows users to Word users and so on down the product line. Microsoft's customers, of course, were free to switch to WordPerfect for Windows or Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows or any other competing products. But by the time those programs were ready, Microsoft already owned the markets. "You could argue," says Arthur, "that Microsoft is the product of clever strategy, mediocre technology and a hell of a lot of increasing returns...
...fourth-floor resident of the H-entryway, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Harvard police instructed him and other entryway residents to return to their rooms and lock thedoors...