Bill Dedman Quotes

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• About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way…
• Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A…
• Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.
• Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.
• Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.
• Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.
• In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
• Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan…
• One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican,…
• In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is…
• Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
• I am not one to seek simple causes.
• 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…
• FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
• 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…
• Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
• The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not…
• In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
• Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
• Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

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