Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrea Swift, food service supervisor at the college dining halls, said Dining Services had the gate installed to protect the dining hall and the objects inside--including paintings, tables, and the chairs that were all moved to the second floor during a prank last week...
Witness New York City Mayor Ed Koch's remarks to the press about the problem of begging in urban America. He said that instead of giving to beggars on the street, people should donate to their favorite charity. He was, legitimately enough, trying to protect people from being swindled. But by telling people to close their hearts and minds to the needy, Koch is providing us with an excuse to stand aside while the poor and homeless starve...
...Sleds wonder if Melrose Park's all-white 65-member police force will protect them. The commander of operations is Lieut. John Carpino. "I don't think there is a racial problem here," he says of the Sleds' problems. "I just don't see it. We're treating it as vandalism. These are pranksters." For a couple of days the city deployed an unmarked car to watch the Sleds. Says Carpino: "Come on, this is 1988. Who's going to lynch who? This is the Midwest. This is nothing to excite anybody about...
...Attorney Valukas takes the matter more seriously. He has sent FBI agents into the Melrose Park neighborhood to protect the Sleds. Two weeks after the Sleds moved in, Melrose Park's building commissioner, C. ("Sonny") Stamatakos, cited the house for ten housing-code violations. Stamatakos says the timing was unrelated to the arrival of the Sleds. Valukas says he finds the timing "very curious...
...protect the taxpaying public and promote investment instead of speculation, Government regulators should sharply limit the amount of junk bonds and other risky investments held by institutions insured by federal and state agencies. In addition, the federal deposit insurance system should be revamped to ensure that it encourages prudent management at financial institutions. At the moment, regulators bail out mismanaged S and Ls and often turn them over to new owners who commit little or no capital of their own and who get a free ride to continue the institutions' speculative activity at no risk to themselves...