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With a contrarian tradition as old as the state itself, Rhode Island could be a state to watch as the Democratic presidential candidates square off in eight state primaries today...
...Rhode Island and Providence Plantations--the state's official name--first rankled the nation's leaders in the 1780s when it refused to pay for the Revolutionary War and dragged its feet on ratifying the new constitution...
...While Rhode Island residents say they no longer hold a grudge against the Constitutional Convention, there are signs that voters there want to upset the current political establishment again--and that may mean voting for former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. today...
...tough standards pay off. While some Guardsmark guards run afoul of the law, the firm's record in 1991 was more than twice as clean as that of the New York City police department. And cleaner records translate into lower insurance premiums and happier clients. Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, switched two years ago, after using Wells Fargo. "We weren't satisfied with the quality of the ((Fargo)) guards or the image they portrayed," says Tony Kubica, a vice president at the hospital. "The Guardsmark guards were an amazing contrast...
Pinkerton's was involved in litigation in the 1980s that drove home the need for industry standards. A Pinkerton's guard at Welsh Manufacturing, a former division of Textron in Rhode Island, admitted he took the job specifically to arrange the theft of gold he was supposed to be protecting. As a result, Welsh won punitive damages. The case, which led to an appellate decision in 1984, exposed Pinkerton's inadequate screening and supervision of its employee. Management never bothered to contact any of the three character references the guard provided. And while Pinkerton's contacted his former employers...