Bill Dedman Quotes
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Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'
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If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
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The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
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'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
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An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
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Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
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Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
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Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.
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Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
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History is the best guide to the future.
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William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
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If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
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In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
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FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
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Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
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Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
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Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.
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In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
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Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.