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Bill Dedman
American
Journalist
Born:
1960
Every
First
Government
People
Political
Who
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Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
Bill Dedman
Sometimes
Building
Saved
Dangers
Inside
Firefighters
No-One
Go
Where
Burning
Ignoring
Even
Needed
History is the best guide to the future.
Bill Dedman
Future
Best
History
Guide
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
Bill Dedman
Good
Dangerous
Word
Will
Building
Action
State
Local
Local Governments
No Guarantee
About
Prevent
Area
Take
Hazards
Discourage
Governments
Get
Public
Landslide
Even
Maps
Guarantee
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
Bill Dedman
Government
Adversity
Home
Moody
Recession
Starts
Month
States
Data
Risk
Economic
Area
Recovering
Prices
Industrial
Employment
Track
Housing
Metro
Label
Expanding
Created
Production
Fortunes
Uses
Each
At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on 'fresh fruit and veggies' for the kids, and 'as little processed foods as possible.'
Bill Dedman
Fruit
Husband
Kids
Possible
Foods
Point
Instructions
Fresh
Up
Stock
Processed
Little
Sent
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Her
Palin
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
Bill Dedman
Buy
Troublemakers
School
Down
Every
Kids
Out
Detector
Guns
Give
Throw
Install
Students
Massacre
Metal
Bulletproof
Soup
Fit
Quick
Train
Cures
Crack
American
Behind
After
Cans
Teachers
Who
Grasp
Profile
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
Bill Dedman
National
Pay
Waterfront
Saving
Financially
Gulf
Percent
Properties
More
Maine
FEMA
Insurance
Than
Owners
Bar
Much
Strained
Harbor
Flood
Alaska
Zone
Program
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
Bill Dedman
Time
Risks
First
Adding
States
Properties
Rivers
New
Along
First Time
Oceans
Estimation
Many
Maps
Flood
Streams
Zone
Raised
Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.
Bill Dedman
Best
Cincinnati
Summer
Out
Seems
Notwithstanding
Bring
Humidity
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
Bill Dedman
Before
Club
Months
Destroyed
Hurricane
Beach
High-Risk
New
Like
Yacht
Yachts
FEMA
Sticks
August
Up
York
Stacked
Just
New York
Which
Request
Sandy
Granted
Flood
Zone
Two
Damaged
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
Bill Dedman
Plants
Thought
Power
Earthquake
Earthquakes
Those
Risk
Area
Power Plants
Major
California
Built
Surprisingly
Anticipating
Low
Coastline
Why
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Zone
Damage
It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.
Bill Dedman
School
Increasing
Types
Say
General
Whether
Hard
Incidence
Violence
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
Bill Dedman
Party
Some
Joined
Never
He
Maintained
Although
Been
Clinton
Label
Quick
Communist
Communist Party
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
Bill Dedman
Though
Some
Student
He
Particularly
Idolized
May
Them
Activists
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.
Bill Dedman
Life
Risks
World
Wealth
Daughter
Ambition
Reputation
Distance
Danger
Clark
Running
Threads
Folly
Someone
Costs
Through
Main
Outside
Tension
Between
Safe
Judging
His
Burdens
Engaging
Inherited
Include
Lives
Keeping
Fragility
I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.
Bill Dedman
Me
People
Tell
Parking
Person
Who
Things
I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.
Bill Dedman
Business
Guess
Place
Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
Bill Dedman
Man
Young
Politician
Born
Most
Young Man
Jason
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
Bill Dedman
Other
States
Economic
Like
Most
Disclosure
Legislators
Public
Little
Interests
Regulation
Illinois
Keep
Honest
The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
Bill Dedman
Service
People
Secret
Once
Hater
Loner
Fit
Who
Popular
Profile
Lunatic
Watched
If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
Bill Dedman
Police
Sexes
All Races
Drivers
Most
Tickets
Police Officers
Equally
Issue
Traffic
Officers
Races
Ages
Serious
Treating
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
Bill Dedman
Failure
Competition
Fear
Will
Parents
Believe
Others
Able
Some
Handle
Children
Succeed
Prepare
Helps
Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.
Bill Dedman
Clark
Collector
Doll
Artist
Painter
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
Bill Dedman
War
Home
Family
Garden
World
Father
Young
Sold
Out
John
Glenn
Over
Town
Mostly
Known
Deaf
Help
Injuries
World War
World War I
Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.
Bill Dedman
Debate
Least
Fierce
Century
Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.
Bill Dedman
Police
Defense
Evidence
Security
Investigations
Allowed
Most
Courts
Department
Screening
Them
Used
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