Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blondie took the oath in early 1977. The department he joined had a long history of corruption. A common joke had it that Philadelphia's kids could play cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police...
...District in 1984. at its north end, the 39th is home to Philadelphia's elite. Large, expensive houses with well-manicured lawns are owned by business tycoons and politicians. But closer to downtown is an area of about 1 sq. mi. that is still home to the predatory crime common in America's inner cities. "It's the kind of place where if you saw a big TV satellite dish, you knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal boss in "Five Squad," the detachment...
...into it, I said, 'Don't talk to me like that. If you have to talk to me, talk to me like a man." No doubt Spree for Three complained of a lack of respect from Carlesimo partly because the stuffy white guy and corn-rowed punk have no common language. Put some mustard on the pass? Who talks like that? Red Holzman...
...religious right's Whitehead and his Rutherford Institute have taken up Paula Jones' cause! This illustrates the biggest weakness of Protestant morality: focusing on sexual mores instead of the questionable actions of vested interests that threaten the common good. Nothing worthwhile can come from this case. If Jones wins, other opportunists will believe the court system will reward them too. And win or lose, the American presidency will be damaged. DAVID COWARD Pensacola...
BREATHING UNEASY A common asthma treatment, the steroid inhalant beclomethasone, is great at reducing the frequency of attacks, but it may have a downside: a study finds that in kids with mild asthma, the drug may delay growth slightly...