Word: warden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DeNiro plays Harry Fabian, an ambulance chaser (a.k.a. personal injury lawyer) who wants to be somebody. He decides to bring back the good old days of boxing with the help of Al Grossman (Jack Warden), a retired prizefighter prone to coronary failure...
...into New York's moribund boxing game looks like a step up to him. His half-baked idea is to revive club fighting, which once kept half a dozen small arenas in the city busy. To help promote the plan he recruits a retired boxer named Al Grossman (Jack Warden, in a canny, counterpunching performance). This brings him into conflict with Al's brother Boom Boom (Alan King), a man of deadly self-importance, who also happens to be kingpin of what's left of the fight racket...
Alba Ferry '42, a pioneer in the war effort, worked as an air raid warden in Cambridge...
...maximum- security inmates from three old, overcrowded facilities into its newly built Tarrant County Correction Center in Fort Worth, the first fully functioning direct-supervision jail system in the state; it features sunny single cells with windows, no bars. "Since then," says the center's newly appointed warden, Major James Skidmore, "we have not had one piece of graffiti written on the walls, one toilet stopped up, one officer or inmate struck or injured. Our officer turnover rate has dropped to 5.4% from 18% in our linear jails, where on average an officer is injured once a day and costly...
...some big-city police departments. The Chicago police department does not allow camera crews - in squad cars, and San Diego's police have refused cooperation with most of the TV cop shows. A reporter in the patrol car is not only an inconvenience, says San Diego captain Dave Warden, but can "prevent supervisors from doing their work -- whether counseling an officer or reprimanding him." The Los Angeles police department does permit ride-alongs -- an average of 10 a week, ranging from journalists to screenwriters and community activists -- but only with reluctance. Says Lieut. John Duncan: "It has a negative impact...