Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California man hunt was a special project, Involving 120 investigators, half from the Marshals Service and half from local police agencies. The 60 two-member teams.were freed from day-today duties. Morris described much of their assignment as "plain old beating-the-streets police work." He attributes the lack of interagency bickering to the fact that the officers were tracking the habitual criminals who give the police and the public the most trouble...
...sector is central to this country's ability to compete. We shouldn't point to our surplus in services and convince ourselves that probably everything is going to be all right. Manufacturing is the base that creates many of those services." For U.S. manufacturing, investors, politicians and plain citizens, that is an important nuts-and-bolts lesson. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New York
...lesson is plain, says Dr. Charles Glueck, director of the University of Cincinnati Lipid Research Center, one of twelve centers that participated in the project: "For every 1% reduction in total cholesterol level, there is a 2% reduction of heart-disease risk." This, says Project Director Basil Rifkind, is the evidence scientists have been waiting for. "It is a turning point in cholesterol-heart-disease research...
David Miller, a student at Rutgers, "didn't think it could happen." When his roommate called the police to report a burglary in their New Jersey house, Miller's budding cannabis plants were in plain view. Said he: "I know more people who smoke pot than smoke cigarettes." The police, when they arrived, were less blase. They arrested and handcuffed his roommate on the spot. Miller later pleaded guilty to charges of possession in order to clear his roommate's name and challenge the constitutionality of the police search...
...glistens off Michael's hair. He and a young man who looks about 20 are sitting side by side on straight-backed chairs facing the television. Michael is watching it intently. They stand up. Michael is wearing a blue coat and dark pants. The friend is wearing a plain white shirt and black pants. The room is very dark. There seem to be outlines of figures against the far wall. Above the TV are shelves, and on the top one I can see what looks like dolls or mannequins about two feet tall...