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...political judgment," Buyle said. "Luxembourg is a small country in financial distress and [the government] is scared to be entangled with drugmoney...
Comments in women's rooms usually are more affirming. The same issues--distress, sexual identity, relationships--are phrased in more gentle terms...
...growing emphasis on other skills, especially communication, comes from a movement in many police departments away from traditional law enforcement into a community-oriented role. In major cities such as New York, Houston and Kansas City, the mark of a good officer is no longer simply responding to distress calls but working in partnership with citizens and local merchants to head off crime and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods. In Madison, which has been transformed from a traditional, call-driven department into a community-oriented operation in the past 20 years, police chief David Couper says female officers...
During a three-hour videotaped statement, Wuornos admitted killing Mallory and six other men who had picked her up on interstate highways. According to police, she posed as a motorist in distress to get her middle-aged victims to stop, persuaded them to go to a secluded spot with the promise of sex, then robbed and killed them. Her lawyers argued during the trial that Wuornos had struck back in self-defense after her clients became abusive. But both her adopted brother and lesbian lover took the stand to dispute her account. Wuornos must now stand trial on four other...
...Minoru Arakawa, president of Nintendo of America, made an offer last week to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Cars and baseball are items located near the center of the American psyche and folklore. To see them symbolically under threat from the Japanese caused unusual resentment and distress to some Americans, especially after they have watched the Japanese buy heavily into Hollywood and Rockefeller Center. The distress was illogical sometimes: Arakawa has lived in the Seattle area for 15 years and has promised to keep the team there, while the competing bidder, a group of Americans, plans to move...