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...experts consider the best national firm in the business. While the industry's trade group, the Committee of National Security Companies (CONSCO), supports Lipman's call for access, some of his competitors have effectively blocked legislation that might upgrade overall industry standards but would also increase costs and thus threaten profits. A bill they especially detest, recently introduced by Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., would require minimum levels of screening and training for all guards hired by the Federal Government, as well as criminal-records checks and psychological testing. "Why the hell do we need the Federal Government in here...
Louis must simultaneously deal with his mother's $22 million inheritance from an ethically questionable chemical company once operated by his grandfather. Fuel to the fire comes in the form of a peculiar series of earthquakes which are beginning to threaten the New England area. And if that weren't enough, Renee--an older, unattractive, brilliant and insecure Harvard seismologist with strong feminist tendencies, whom Louis finds himself falling reluctantly in love with--discovers that these turbulent terrestrial tremors could very well be the result of the avaricious and corrupt conduct of Louis' grandfather and his cohorts...
...crystal inkwell that Wills used to threaten the library attendant was also recovered on Friday...
Patterson added that those who support Jeffries threaten the advance of civil rights...
...onsequences of seemingly small changes in the earth's equilibrium. Apparently, samll temperature changes have precipitated everything from the Ice Age to the habitation of North America. Gore's subsequently predicts that similar changes (such as higher temperatures from global warming) could destroy humanity. Gore's point fails to threaten the reader when one considers that civilization has always adapted to environmental variation...