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Once dismissed as the loony notion of free-market zealots, for-profit schools are fast winning support and jolting the $360 billion public school market, the last major sector of the U.S. economy to feel the lash of competition. The very notion seems heretical: public schools run by private companies that charge no tuition but operate classrooms for local school boards or independent chartering organizations using taxpayer money--some of which will go to shareholders as (gasp!) profit...
...bank stocks now trade below the panic levels reached during the Asia crisis in 1998. Many sport price-to-earnings ratios below 7, a low mark not widely seen in the bank sector since tough times in 1990. Simply put: Bank stocks are discounting a severe recession when it's not clear that...
...uniform patrol, you cover a sector, you are in a marked patrol car and people notice who and where you are. Uniformed police presence can be a deterrent to crime. On the other hand when you're in plain clothes no one knows who you are. It's much easier to conduct surveillance on a suspect; you can be right next to a suspect when he or she commits a crime...
...heading back to the station, located at 29 Garden St., to drop off his sector keys. Each of the officers on duty has sector keys that allow them to enter public areas in the dorms in case of emergency. The superintendents usually leave at around 5 p.m., and the security guards are on duty until 1 a.m. The officers wouldn't have to wait for the superintendent or security guards. They don't have access to student rooms...
...also attacked the industry's denial of the addictive properties of cigarettes and its targeting of children as an important consumer sector...