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While companies cannot always anticipate their legal exposure, they can take precautions to shield themselves from violent intrusion. As a result, they are investing more than ever in hiring guards and installing high-tech gizmos like tilt-and-zoom closed-circuit cameras or magnetic-card access systems. The current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another...
When the Rangers radioed for gun support, the pilots would zoom in to plant a tracer round or two in the street. Then the Rangers would call back a correction in aim, sometimes directing fire as close as 15 ft. from their positions, and the gunships would return for a serious pass. As one Little Bird whizzed by, its guns blazing, Bray felt dozens of hot projectiles * striking his body. "I thought I'd had it," he recalled. It took Bray several seconds to realize it was not bullets raining down on him but the brass casings pouring...
...some retailers say two guards and the Shops' hidden camera video monitoring system--even with its zoom lenses and multi-angle display--do not provide enough protection...
...less obvious risk is that the S&P might zoom 75% right off the bat, say, and then just sit there for five years. That would be an "average" 75% gain, which Citi would have to double. Wow. But, my friends, the chances of the market zooming 75% anytime soon are . . . Well, forget about it. In any event, Citi can hedge against these risks...
...past and have "decided that it matters not if yesterday they were rich or poor, educated or ignorant, proud or humble, in love or empty-hearted--no more than it matters how a soft wind gets into their hair." In another world, where houses are on wheels and zoom around the city, it is discovered that time moves more slowly for people in motion. In this world, however, the happiest people are those who have stopped competing to live in the fastest house, but instead "rise in the morning, take baths, eat plaited bread and ham, work at their desks...