Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...people see the homeless as lazy, that they don't want to work," he says. "I tried to get into the work field, but I have a police record from making bad decisions while under the influence of alcohol...
...Jesse L. Field...
Sotheby's, with Christie's not far behind, has led the field in this enterprise of simoniac strip-mining. No excess, no necrophiliac vulgarity, was too great--the $54 million Van Gogh Irises that didn't really sell, the degraded spectacle of Americans hyped into bidding tens of thousands of dollars for gewgaws that once reposed in Jackie O.'s lavatory, the nitwits scrambling for sole and unimpeded possession of Marilyn Monroe's faded frillies. So for many, the idea that the mighty auction duumvirate should find itself humbled for any reason was almost too delicious to contemplate...
Weak supervision has also been a problem. Los Angeles lost 1,600 positions in the 1980s owing to budget cuts, and much of the attrition came among managers in the field. Parks says supervisors often didn't see--or worse, ignored--"red flags" that something was wrong. Perez has charged that a key reason for the misconduct he observed and participated in was that officers were "trying to impress supervisors...
...address many of these issues in a report to be released this week, a blueprint for turning the department around. One of its main recommendations, Parks has said, will be tightened screening of applicants, including better background checks, improved psychological testing, polygraph exams and more management in the field...