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...students would win federal financing for their college education (at an annual cost of approximately $10,000 a student); in exchange, they would agree to serve four years as local police officers after graduation. Fully funded, the program would set the feds back about $1.2 billion a year. Once sworn in, the four-year cops would be a bargain. The localities they serve would pay their salaries but in most cases could avoid paying their pension benefits and seniority raises down the line. Over the long term, corps members would cost far less than career officers -- perhaps a third less...
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...
...typical introduction: "I'm Betty and my husband Harold was just sworn in as the Undersecretary to the Council of the Subcommittee to investigate mail fraud. He was responsible for the arrest of 300 illegal catalogue delivery services last week...
...governor, who supported a sweeping taxrollback referendum in the fall election, remainedresolutely opposed to tax increases in his speechyesterday. But he may face an uphill battlegetting his reform program through thelegislature, which remains in the Democratic handsof Bulger and Weld's Cambridge neighbor, CharlesFlaherty, who was sworn in as House SpeakerWednesday morning...
Weld then entered the House chamber, where hewas sworn in before a joint meeting of the Houseand Senate, along with Cellucci and the members ofthe Governor's Council