Word: sewing
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...took over a department reeling from low morale caused by widespread staff reductions and paltry salaries and quickly won the force a 6% raise. Lauded as a hard worker who came up through the ranks, Watson will never forget being handed a dress pattern and told to sew her own uniform as a rookie cop 18 years ago. She went on to serve with distinction in practically every division from auto theft to the SWAT team, and insists that macho behavior in the department never bothered her. "Look where I am now. Heck, obviously I haven't been...
...bring wrenching changes in America's sprawling military-industrial base, whose $120 billion in annual revenues is larger than the entire economy of Sweden. The shrinkage will effect more than 250,000 firms in 215 industries, ranging from the shipbuilders that construct aircraft carriers to the clothing companies that sew uniforms. Says Frank Shrontz, chairman of Boeing, the ninth largest U.S. defense contractor: "We are going to face a broad realignment across the whole defense spectrum, and I can't tell where that's going to hit us hardest...
When rookie cop Elizabeth Watson joined the Houston police department 17 years ago, she was handed a dress pattern and told to sew her own uniform. Last week she was sworn in as the city's police chief, the first woman in the U.S. to head a big-city force: 3,947 officers, 90.8% of them male...