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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After years of official denial, city authorities now admit they face a monumental problem. "I inherited a police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPS AND ROBBERS | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...sent it, relations between the two chambers have not been easy. Late Friday, after wrangling for a full five weeks, a House-Senate conference committee finally reached an agreement on legislation that prevents Washington from imposing unfunded mandates on the states-but only after weakening the bill. Its proponents admit the measure would slow the pace of mandates, not end the practice altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMISES TO KEEP | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...true, I admit to it," DeVore said of his membership, "[but] I'd forgotten all about...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: New Club Honors 'True Lies' Film Star | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...Today the people who might be against Sheldon, claiming he believed in eugenics, have no hesitation in saying marrying couples should get genetic counselling." Lanier says. "Eugenics is in full flower today but nobody wants to admit...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: POSING FOR POSTURE | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...questions raised by a foreign policy issue like the Conoco deal do not admit of tidy solutions. Faced with the option of making an important (if symbolic) point or maintaining a stubbornly consistent foreign policy vis-a-vis all authoritarian regimes, the Clinton Administration chose the former. It was a correct decision...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Foreign Policy, At Last | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

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