Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Backs Captain Andrew Pinkerton agreed that the Crimson needs better preparation if the team hopes to win games this spring...
...weren't really prepared for this game," Pinkerton said. "Everyone was still pretty tired from the spring tour. We need to get together as a team. We also have to have a shift in our mental attitude...
...Pinkerton's has found it easier to grow by voraciously gobbling up smaller security firms -- 14 in 1991 alone. But along the way, the company has also lost some big contracts. Wall Street's Kidder, Peabody dropped the firm because "when Pinkerton's was bought out by CPP, the service started falling apart," says John Poppe, Kidder's director of security. "There was constant turnover of guards." In January, Smith Barney gave Pinkerton's the pink slip as well. "Big security companies become apathetic," complains an executive at the brokerage. "We've had guards who were unable to write, unable...
...Pinkerton's was involved in litigation in the 1980s that drove home the need for industry standards. A Pinkerton's guard at Welsh Manufacturing, a former division of Textron in Rhode Island, admitted he took the job specifically to arrange the theft of gold he was supposed to be protecting. As a result, Welsh won punitive damages. The case, which led to an appellate decision in 1984, exposed Pinkerton's inadequate screening and supervision of its employee. Management never bothered to contact any of the three character references the guard provided. And while Pinkerton's contacted his former employers...
...bill they especially detest, recently introduced by Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., would require minimum levels of screening and training for all guards hired by the Federal Government, as well as criminal-records checks and psychological testing. "Why the hell do we need the Federal Government in here?" explodes Pinkerton's president Albert Berger. "It's an invasion of what the states should be doing. Just because Lipman ((like Gore)) is in Tennessee ((the state Gore represents)) is the only reason why the bill exists...