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artment in Portland, and in her role as director of NCWP, Harrington says that the biggest barrier to women in policing is not just difficulties in recruiting, but the attitudes and behavior of their male colleagues, along with maledominated police unions.Most of the officers we have on patrol are pretty young for the most part, says Tammy Hooper, who has been with the Alexandria police for 11 years and is now a lieutenant. They have been working with women the whole time and have never known doing the job without women.Without that perspective, some older male officers continue to see policing as mainly a male profession with an emphasis on preparing to use force.Women may have a place in community affairs, says a police chief from the Midwest who did not want to be identified, but can they cut it like men when it comes to effective physical force under many circumstancesI'd say the jury is still out....Deputy Chief Baker disagrees. This may sound insensitive, he says, but if that is the way any chief feels, I
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 world's largest company. Employees still take out their own trash.When marketing Professor Jay Handelman at Alberta's University of Lethbridge began surveying WalMart's impact on Canadians, he found customers didn't get what they wanted, they wanted what they got.Before a WalMart arrived in a community, for example, local consumers would tell Mr. Handelman that they wanted a new store to offer such things as special sales and a good location. But months after the arrival of WalMart, which downplays sales in favor of everyday low prices, consumers had changed their preferences to everyday low prices. And location mattered hardly at all.Even though they're this huge multinational, they're able to portray themselves as the local community store, he says.The problem facing Israel, which celebrated its 57th anniversary last Thursday, is the same as it's been for as long as anyone can remember: the clash of political Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, which have been inextricably linked since the early 20th century.
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 1960s and 1980s.Anne Bingaman, top antitrust official at the Justice Department until last October, offers one explanation: The United States is the most competitive in the world. That is because we take our antitrust seriously.Despite the mergers, most companies lack the market power to raise prices easily. Inflation has remained low.Yet the pace of the trend is stunning: more than 2,000 announced buyouts or mergers every three months.Through last week, $292 billion in such deals had been announced this year, says Richard Peterson of Securities Data Company in Newark, N.J.At that pace, mergers this year will top the record $648 billion total in 1996.If ATampampT and SBC Communications, a regional Bell company, join forces, the $50 billionplus merger would blow the numbers out well over $700 billion, notes Mr. Peterson.That if is a big one, though. The companies themselves are still in the talking stage, and a proposed merger must clear significant regulatory hurdles.But the deal would easily clear the record $3
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 bad night out at the movies. Grade: DRated PG13 for frightening sequences.Sex/Nudity: 2 instances of mild innuendo. Violence: 10 instances, including attacks by a beast. Profanity: 8 mild expressions, 32 milder. Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: 3 scenes with drinking, 3 with smoking.Suffice it to say, Dad found it difficult to translate his skiing skills to a 5footlong board on which he buckled both feet and glided sideways.Snowboarders, too, had an image problem in my eyes. Often teenagers dressed in tentsized clothing, boarders have irked me more than once by zipping across my ski path at lightning speed, disrupting the natural traffic pattern. Skiers, after all, owned the slopes. Snowboarders were interlopers.But then an opportunity arose to take snowboard lessons designed just for adults. It took me all of two seconds to make up my mind. I wanted to know what the buzz was about. I wanted to keep pace with the rugrats.After taking a threeday class, I have revised my opinion of the sport and its young devotees. I think
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