Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extra protection to merchants and homeowners. The 1899 city charter legitimized the freelancers and brought them under the official umbrella of the police department, but kept them in business. The "Specials" report to local precincts, wear regulation blue, carry guns and nightsticks. They follow all the rules imposed on regular cops and wield most of their powers-unlike other private security agents such as the Pinkertons, who have to call a policeman if they want to make an arrest...
...give customers all kinds of services beyond what the city provides. "I will be on call 24 hours a day," declares Grebmeier, 37. Clients pay anywhere from $35 a month (for a small family dwelling or retail store) to $450 (for a large apartment house) for three to six regular nightly inspections. For an extra fee, the Grebmeiers will collect mail on weekends, carry deposits to the bank, deliver children home from the airport or trail along with clients as bodyguards at $11.50 an hour...
...soon-to-be-published text, God generally speaks in the first person. The Temple Scroll also uses regular script to record the divine name YHWH, unlike other Qumran texts, which used a distinctive script to remind readers that the name was too sacred to be uttered. This means that the Temple Scroll must have been considered a direct revelation from God, on a level with the Bible itself...
...equipment and large staff-to-patient ratios (10 or 15 to 1) make burn care extremely expensive. Daily costs run from $350 to $750. Also, occupancy rates in burn units may be low for long stretches. For these reasons, some officials would like burn treatment kept part of the regular acute-care facilities of hospitals. Burn specialists disagree. They argue that burn centers not only provide patients with a level of treatment unavailable anywhere else but also make economic sense. Insists Dr. John Converse, head of reconstructive plastic surgery at N.Y.U. Medical Center: "Good burn centers eventually save money...
...students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be completing courses in what is billed as the richest extracurricular intersession program in advanced education. The range of subjects-totaling 500 different courses over a three-week period-is enough to satiate the intellectual appetite for an entire regular semester. Along with such basics as German and calculus, the curriculum offers...