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During this time, guards say, their departmentwas rife with discrimination, enmity betweenpolice officers and guards and poor supervision...
...everyone said no, and soon reports were rife in the Olympic community of five-star boondoggles and outright fraud. You just weren't a self-respecting I.O.C. member if you weren't demanding first-class travel. You were something of a boob if you weren't cashing in those tickets, buying coach and keeping the change. Where once Killy gave out pens, suitor cities now offered furs, jewelry and fine wines. Robert Helmick, a former I.O.C. member and U.S.O.C. president who resigned in 1991 when it was alleged that he had violated U.S.O.C. conflict-of-interest guidelines by representing clients...
...arranging merchandise and props in full view of the rest of humanity?" You enter the book with a decided intention to dislike him. But give yourself about five pages, and you will be more than won over, you will want to intern for him-for free. In an atmosphere rife with political correctness, Doonan never veers from the unapologetic identity of, as he puts it confidently, "a pansy." The difficulty of being gay and the terror of possibly dying of AIDS are smothered under the same ecstatic "je ne sais quoi" which spikes his window threatrics...
Sonn claimed that Mandela resolves the contradictions in values rife in the world today...
...history of diet supplements is rife with fads that fizzled or proved dangerous to health. Melatonin, a hormone used to prevent insomnia, became a craze a few years ago, when, on the basis of studies with mice and rats, some researchers hailed it as a miracle cure for aging. But when later reports cast doubt on the findings, sales of melatonin went back to sleep. Last year a tea made from the Chinese kombucha mushroom that was promoted as a remedy for cancer caused four people to be hospitalized for conditions ranging from jaundice to headaches and nausea...