Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naturally, officers around the country last week expressed frustration that they were all being unfairly tarred by the Fuhr man brush. That, doubtless, is mostly true. But when people are afraid to report their complaints, when officers work alongside acknowledged racists or miscreants in silence, when news of the latest police scandal is met with a "So what?" by jaded citizens, the system has gone awry. "It can be hard to keep your compassion," says L.A.P.D. sergeant Mike Albanese. "But we need to find a way to help people who have a problem get out of this system...
...York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight cover stories and helped report on such events as the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and the devastating brush fires of two years...
...kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks. Some were black from a blanket of flies that covered them...
Sponsors of the legislation brush aside such arguments. "The new environment is going to be consumer driven," asserts Texas Republican Jack Fields, who chairs the House telecommunications panel. "If [cable-TV and phone services] are not attractive, then consumers are not going to participate in your enterprise...
This concept may be easier to implement now that fathers are more involved in the care of their young children. If it's pregnant women asking to work at home, employers can brush off their requests much more facilely than if it's a good percentage of their male and female employees wanting the same thing...