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...placed Karefa-Smart in a delicate position. "When this brother pulled this fast one on us, I found I could not stay under those conditions," he says. "So I left the country. I remained a member of Parliment, but took a post at Columbia University because it would be safer...
...during 1972 they had been robbed, raped or assaulted. Only 36 out of 1,000 said that they had been the victims of such crimes in New York, compared with 53 in Los Angeles, 56 in Chicago, 63 in Philadelphia and 68 in Detroit. Not only were individuals generally safer in New York, but they were more secure from other crimes: burglary, auto theft and larceny...
...British government study released in February concluded that since 1969 such intimidation, mainly directed against Catholics, has caused at least 60,000 of Greater Belfast's 500,000 people to abandon their homes for safer -meaning segregated-neighborhoods. Even Belfast's housing authorities now recommend that "stray" families be moved away from "alien" neighborhoods. The Hamiltons and McCartans have had more than enough. "We're all thinking of leaving," said a male survivor at the funeral of John Hamilton...
Fuqua prefers purchasing proven companies because "it's much simpler, much faster, and much safer" than forming new ones, he said. "Success depends to a large extent on who you marry," he added...
...point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail system needs only to be rescued from shocking decrepitude at a fraction of the cost of the car-plane juggernaut...