Word: arresting
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...road. The same vehicle pursued her in a wheel-screeching, hilltop chase until she got away by shutting off her lights. Then there were the constant phone calls to her home from someone who only breathed over the line, and a false newspaper report that an arrest warrant had been issued in her name. She began to fear for her life. "It was as if we were living in the Soviet Union," she recalls. "My parents couldn't believe this was happening...
...peacekeepers. Gunmen had used women and children as human shields, and mutilated the corpses of the fallen Pakistanis. Aidid hardly showed remorse. A few days prior to the U.S. raid he blamed the U.N. for provoking the lethal firefight. "Unfortunately," he boasted, "I have no power or authority to arrest them...
True, Clinton came to office with support from underdogs of all descriptions -- gays, women, minorities, union members and those of the poor who manage to vote. They were hoping he might arrest the upward flow of wealth and generally take a stand with the oppressed and the harassed against the bigots and the bullies. But this never, even in a rhetorical sense, became a consistent Clinton theme. He dropped the gays like a flaming potato, suggesting they might serve in special lavender units; he abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA...
...Three and a half years ago, you were still under arrest. Now you're engaged in the process of rebuilding the country. Did you ever think this was going to happen in your lifetime...
Something about the department needs to change, employees say. tions have all improved--a rise brought into focus this year by the widely commended arrest of student-impersonator and career confidence artist James Arthur Hogue...