Word: beate
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...message again. His advisers have warned him that he's playing a high-stakes game. "It's a very tough issue for Republicans because it requires education," says G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz. "Facts are on the side of the Republicans. Emotion is on the side of Democrats. Can facts beat emotion?'' If not, he predicts, "This could be a fiasco...
...Bosnian Muslims still unaccounted for, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck said he has heard credible reports of mass executions of refugees in the area byBosnian Serbs. Shattuck said he interviewed about a dozen refugees, including two claiming to have escaped from a warehouse where Serbs allegedly beat refugees before taking them outside in groups of 20 to be shot at the edge of mass graves...
...road to respect for the U.S. team is still a long one. "Nobody takes us seriously," said Lalas. "Whenever we beat a team, they fire the coach. But when we lost to Brazil last year, we all thought we had a long way to go. We are still behind them, but much closer than we were before...
...BUREAU HAS ALWAYS WALKED A DIFFICULT beat, one that lies at the heart of American ambivalence. Largely through historic accident, the agency acquired responsibility for regulating three of the nation's most popular yet dangerous products: booze, cigarettes and guns. Its forebears include the "revenuers" who hunted moonshiners and enforced Prohibition. Eliot Ness remains the bureau's chief institutional hero. Today large framed posters from the 1987 movie The Untouchables hang in many ATF offices...
...keystone of the strategy is to make each of the city's 76 precinct commanders directly responsible for keeping the peace in a well-defined area--formerly the beat officers' job. When Captain Jose Cordero of the 40th precinct in the South Bronx learned that shootings in his precinct had edged up 15% earlier this year, for example, he authorized sweeping searches of housing projects and mailboxes, two common hiding places for guns and drugs. By blocking off streets, officers denied potential drug buyers access to the neighborhood. The result: a 22% drop in shootings over the next two months...