Word: scofflaws
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Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
Strong words--yet Kenyon was, if anything, soft-pedaling the situation. Before he joined Northeast, the utility had become known as a nuclear scofflaw, an industry rogue that for years cut operating costs by ignoring NRC regulations, allowing chronic hardware problems to go unrepaired and harassing employees who raised safety concerns--employees such as George Galatis, the engineer whose crusade to clean up the company landed him on the cover of TIME one year ago this month ("Blowing the Whistle on Nuclear Safety," March 4, 1996). Galatis' most alarming discovery was that the NRC knew about Northeast's dangerous game...
...when your prefeminist, stand-by-your-man performance prompts millions (including me) to label you a doormat, it is hard to reclaim your anonymity. Like a state trooper who keeps hundreds from speeding by pulling over one scofflaw, McGann might have slowed down a few philanderers with a decisive show of force. But she resisted playing to the crowd or saving face, to the near universal scorn of the sisterhood. "I didn't know that feminists had decreed what the politically correct rules were for personal relationships," she says. "I did what was right...
...temp agency, and he asked, "That's a good economy? I don't think so." You don't have to be running for President to be fond of tossing off that pat rejoinder. The police in Madison, Wisconsin, for example, reported that when they ordered a young scofflaw to approach their squad car, he replied, "I don't think so," and tried to run. (The cops caught him by his fanny pack...
...preschool education, all on the grounds of crime prevention. She set up a one-stop child-support center, with everything from counselors and law-enforcement officials to medical personnel for drawing blood to confirm paternity. She was one of the first prosecutors around to come down hard on scofflaw spouses who skipped out on child support, prompting a disgruntled father to scrawl threatening graffiti on a sign near her home. Some critics charge that in her zeal she went too far; in 1984 her office came under fire for forcing confessions and railroading defendants in a high-profile child-abuse...