#specialized

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#discovery #doe #facilities #large-scale #led

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#bike #build #comfortable #great #i

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ever #however #i #less #much

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#fun #increasingly #mean #more #specialized

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#administration #agencies #america #any #because

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#back #come #create #degrees #develop