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...biggest boon to law enforcers trying to cut theft rates has been the new trend in bicycle locks, spawned by the Kryptonite lock five years ago. Now the U-shaped locks account for 75 per cent of all locks sold by the Bicycle Exchange...
When the University Police started compiling bicycle theft statistics 14 months ago, they found that one of the worst places to park a bike was at the Grays Hall racks behind the police station...
Since that time, bicycle theft rates have dropped substantially. In the first quarter of this year, 44 per cent fewer bikes were stolen than in the same quarter of last year, and the theft rate at Grays has been cut in half...
...University Police last year distributed reprints of the Consumer Reports study of bicycle locks and depicted a U-shaped lock in their "Lock Your Bike" posters. But the police have also stepped up their patrols in high bike-theft areas...
...history of man's efforts to restrain the growth of government. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, gave liberal its new meaning: the use of what has become Big Government to redress society's inequities. Herbert Hoover objected not only to F.D.R.'s policies but also to his theft of the word liberal. Barry Goldwater was the first presidential candidate to glory in the label conservative...