Sole 19 Selected Quotes By - Bill Dedman

Sole 19 Selected Quotes By - Bill Dedmane

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 to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.

— Bill Dedman

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 credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.

— Bill Dedman

Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.

— Bill Dedman

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.

— Bill Dedman

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

— Bill Dedman

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, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

— Bill Dedman

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 a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

— Bill Dedman

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.

— Bill Dedman

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

— Bill Dedman

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

— Bill Dedman

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

— Bill Dedman

Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.

— Bill Dedman

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

— Bill Dedman

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

— Bill Dedman

State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.

— Bill Dedman

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.

— Bill Dedman

In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast.

— Bill Dedman

Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.

— Bill Dedman

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

— Bill Dedman

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