Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the blame for bureaucratic slackness rests with the public-service unions whose rigid rules impair productivity. It takes yards of red tape and constant bickering to shift anyone to another department or category. Only by sweetening fringe benefits three years ago could the city persuade the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to allow more men to be put on the streets during the high-crime shift from 4 p.m. to midnight...
...doesn't miss being in the thick of things. "Well, occasionally I feel a pang," he admits. "When I heard about Patty Hearst being busted, I thought, son of a bitch, I'd sure like to get my hands on her, you know, for four of five hours of tape. But in general I don't, because the way I want to do it now is that to do something I want to do, not something that necessarily falls within mainstream journalism, whatver that...
...White students don't think blacks exist as their intellectual equals or challenge, but exist as a tape recorder exists. You talk into it; but don't expect a response...
...chairman of the Hearst Corp., is ready and willing to put up the $1.5 million bail and has agreed to meet any conditions imposed by the court to keep Patty from fleeing. In an affidavit of his own, which was mocked by Patty's harsh words on the tape, Hearst declared that his daughter "regards our home as her home, and has expressed, over the past three days, an enthusiastic wish to return to living with her parents...
...Hearsts were shaken by the release of the tape hi which Patty said she did not want to live on bail as a "prisoner" in her family's home. On the day the passage was made public, they cut their usual visit with their daughter from 30 minutes to 15. When newsmen asked for their comments on the tape, Mrs. Hearst lost her normal composure and called them a "bunch of ghouls...