Word: controller
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...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
...local elementary school. As the mother of two daughters herself, she has always cared about the school's children, but one day a particularly difficult child, Robbie, refuses to take his medicine and throws it back at her. In a moment of anger and frustration Alice loses control of her emotions and slaps the child across the face. As one might expect, this event remains sharply fixed in Alice's mind. Elliott uses several slow-motion flashbacks to effectively show the confusing memory interfering with Alice's concentration--eventually, she cannot manage these thoughts and one afternoon becomes a fateful...
...believes there could be thousands more, while Parks estimates that the cost of the ensuing lawsuits could run into the hundreds of millions. "When this initially happened," notes Reed, "the people in the Rampart neighborhood came out and supported the police. The CRASH division had gotten gang activity under control and people began to feel they had gotten their neighborhood back. But once the details of the investigation started coming to light, that support quickly ended." While nothing as embarrassing or threatening as a federal investigation into the department has been launched, it seems the LAPD's attempts to forge...
Since the insurer has gone under state control, state officials have been seeking ways put the company back on its feet. They have expressed a strong preference for creating a plan to keep the HPHC as a nonprofit institution, instead of selling it to an already established for-profit insurer...
...state has employed the investment firm Salomon Smith Barney to look at possible alternatives to keep the insurer afloat. The state has announced that it would release several reasonable and realistic options for taking HPHC out of state control by Friday...