"This is on the hot list for the Department of Labor and the IRS, " says Penny C.

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Several years ago the department got into hot water over utterly misbegotten "model" curriculums for teaching English and American history.

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The fire department advertising free hot showers.

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Butler was arrested and now an investigation promises to ensnare members of the local police department that acted on the hot DUI tips.

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Those numbers include the Montgomery County Police, the Rockville Police Department, the FBI task force hot line, a priest in Ashland, and CNN's Washington bureau.

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The phenomenon came into focus for me with an analysis of hot mutual funds by John Chamberlain of our Statistics Department.

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It would rather pass this hot potato to an inter-agency group that would include the State Department and the Treasury to deal with hard cases.

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"Usually on the first hot night, people bust out, " said Walter Signorelli, a retired New York Police Department inspector who is now a professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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