Word: runaways
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...They run because they're driving Uncle Freddie's car, when Uncle Freddie told them not to. Or they have a six-pack of beer in the car and they're underage. Or they have an expired license. Or they have an outstanding warrant for nonsupport." Most of the runaway drivers are in their teens or 20s, while those doing the chasing tend to be young, inexperienced officers. For the cops, pursuits can spark up long hours of dull patrol duty. In addition, "there is a John Wayne syndrome," notes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington; police...
...March this year, the hydraulic system that operates the governor failed, and the turbine went into a runaway state, approaching dangerous speeds before it could be shut off with manual controls. Later in the spring, when rainfall was light, the plant was found to be in violation of the terms of its permit, which requires a certain minimum flow through the gorge. So much water was used in running the plant that the river itself was "dewatered," as one official put it, threatening the survival of fish. The plant's operation had to be halted until a new computer...
...condition of the homeless is appalling, solutions can seem hopelessly complex. Offering the medical treatment necessary for a derelict alcoholic is different from providing job training and education for a welfare mother, counseling for a teenage runaway or more income for a worker trying to secure an apartment. Yet no matter what their other difficulties, the homeless share a simple problem: they need a place to live. The best response to homelessness is to build more housing. This wealthy nation should start with a basic policy: no American should have to sleep on the street...
...heart of the story are runaway real estate prices and a younger generation that was unable to climb aboard before housing became so hard to afford. It would cost Peggy almost $38,000 for a down payment on a median- price house in Los Angeles, something she could not manage at her present savings rate for about 40 years. As it is, she pays $500 a month in rent, almost three times as much as her father's initial mortgage payments...
...those early days, when each computer was a stand-alone device, there was no threat of a runaway virus. If things got out of control on a particular machine, its keepers could simply shut it down. But all that changed when computers began to be connected to one another. A self-replicating organism created in fun could be devastating if loosed upon the world of interconnected machines. For that reason, the Core War combatants observed an unspoken vow never to reveal to the public the details of their game...