Word: pleasing
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Nonetheless, last May the city council responded to pleas from City Manager Chuck Pinto and Police Chief Roy Vaughn by authorizing $10,000 for a larger community narcotics operation. "We had suspicions that things were going on," explained Pinto. In July Raffield, a short, muscular ex-police dispatcher from a...
Pierson is one of the 300 or so children each year across the U.S. who murder one or both of their parents. Fathers are most often the victims. In recent years the frequency of such crimes, which account for just under 2% of all U.S. homicides, has remained stable, but...
Elementary school teachers' pleas for students to eat "a nutritious breakfast" may never be the same again. They'll have to change the four food groups to five, to accomodate syrupy, sugary beverages and foods. They'll recommend three daily portions from the Cola group, although they will allow for...
A more serious objection from many in the intelligence community is that Woodward's expose has divulged classified information that will damage U.S. spying efforts. The book, for example, includes a detailed explanation of Ivy Bells, an eavesdropping operation aimed at Soviet underwater cables, betrayed to Moscow by Spy Ronald...
After hearing impassioned pleas from General Fidel Ramos, the armed forces chief, and Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto, the President and her Cabinet last week agreed to sponsor a bill in Congress that would raise military salaries by 60%. Aquino also tried an old ploy: reaching for the halo of political...