department
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This September, the department ordered the building’s owner to “immediately remove all fired damaged debris that pose a Present, immenent, extreme and immediate hazard or danger to life or limb, health or safety.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Store co-owner Merissa Ellis, along with Dominique Moton, an associate in the garden department, started a series of social-media posts challenging people to spot cats Max and Emma hiding in the merchandise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The department did not disclose the scope of the investigation or what agents were seeking.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Did the department of motor vehicles take her license?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
During the day, telephone calls are meant for business: banks and couriers and department stores and the post office.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Anthropic has previously alerted police departments to more substantive information about potential risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
And M&S this week announced a new partnership with Sephora, saying it would replace a hundred of its own beauty departments with the brand next year.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
I’ve worked at a big-box store for 14 years, mostly in the gardening and lumber departments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
University police departments are police departments, despite critiques of this model.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
For this very reason, many police departments have moved, in recent years, toward one-officer squad cars instead of two-.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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