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...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 to answer phones...
Although the force reduction actually began in 1990, most of the earlier downsizing was accomplished through attrition and reduced recruiting. Now the dread phrase "involuntary separation" is in vogue, and pink slips are about to go out by the thousands. Air Force Sergeant Cindy Gunter, 33, of Pope A.F.B., Fayetteville, N.C., is leaving halfway through a career she hoped would span 20 years. "I'm being thrown out, that's the way I look at it," she says. "They're making me go. I don't have a choice...
Their sounds is reminiscent of much of thePretty In Pink soundtrack, combining brashelectric guitar with strong vocals and basic drumbeats. The soothing voice of the lead vocalistadds a touch of the mellow to the mixture...
...museums, get on Poplar Avenue and head toward the Pink Palace Museum--one of the few museums in the world that still has lots of buttons to PUSH. If you visit in late spring, they'll have much-hyped Etruscan exhibit. If not, stop by on a weekend and see the miniature circus...
Among the residents, merchants and criminals of Venice, Calif., officer Kelly Shea is as well known as the neighborhood gang leaders. The blond mane neatly tied back, slender figure and pink lipstick violate the stereotype of guardian of law and order; but Shea, 32, has managed to win the respect of street thugs who usually answer more readily to the slam of a cop's billy club. She speaks softly, raising her voice only as needed. While her record of arrests during her 10 years on patrol is comparable to those of the men in her division, she has been...