EDITORIAL WIDOWS AND ORPHANS POLICE AND FIREFIGHTER UNIONS USE SCARE TACTICS TO AVOID PENSION REFORM DISCUSSION.THE unions representing police and firefighters have taken the offensive against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to rein in to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins. to cause (a person) to slow down or cease some activity; - to rein in is used commonly of superiors in a chain of command, ordering a subordinate to moderate or cease some activity deemed excessive. See also: Rein Rein the runaway costs of public-employee pensions. In an effort to squelch reform without even talking about the problem, the unions have launched a full-scale war, claiming that the governor is trying to cut death benefits and life insurance to the families of public- safety workers who die in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
Who could be so callous to let widows and orphans In typesetting, widow refers to the final line of a paragraph that falls at the top the following page of text, separated from the remainder of the paragraph on the previous page. The term can also be used to refer simply to an uncomfortably short (e.g. starve? Schwarzenegger has insisted repeatedly that he has no intention of doing such a thing, that his only goal is to find a way to reduce pension costs before they bankrupt the state and local government. Misinformation mis·in·form tr.v. mis·in·formed, mis·in·form·ing, mis·in·forms To provide with incorrect information. mis campaigns don't help to find reasonable compromises for serious problems. |
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