Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come from young voters and their parents. He ticked off a list of his major objectives if he is elected: a tax cut in 1976, retention of rent control, halting the expansion of Harvard and MIT, and reducing vandalism in Cambridge schools through the use of security guards to patrol the halls...
...with a simple mechanical sense and the crudest tools and materials, he argues. Even in prisons guns are obtained through smuggling and primitive manufacture. Anop adds that marijuana is illegal in the U.S. but that this hasn't stopped even high school kids from smoking it. And the border patrol is unable to prevent the easy flow of machine guns and mortars, let alone handguns, across the Canadian and Mexican borders...
...patrol car may be more than just a fantasy of policemen's wives in the growing number of cities using women cops on line duty. In Washington, D.C., Officer Peggy A. Jackson, 27, charges that it is practically a rule of the force that "you've got to make love to get a day off or make love to get a good beat." Washington's 4,200-member police department includes 333 women, about half of whom are assigned to patrol duty with men. No formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating...
...many acts of government could be performed better on a local level. Neighborhood leaders, for example, would know better than city hall when to patrol the streets and how to clean them, how to maintain the parks and collect the garbage. The flourishing block associations in the city are a modest revival of local self-government. A portion of the city labor force might be dispatched to work in the neighborhoods. One employee could serve as a captain to coordinate activities for a five-block area and stimulate volunteer work. With a limited power of the purse, communities could choose...
...university, scandals involving students usually come to the attention of administrators, as well as newspapers--as with the cases of alleged financial finagling by student officers in the Model U.N. and the student security patrol last year. In cases like these the University may decide to discipline students who are implicated...