Word: dither
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...across the country, from New York City to New Orleans to Los Angeles. The spike, coming on the heels of a sustained downturn in serious crime, brings some metropolitan areas back on track with 1997 and 1998 homicide figures, and has social scientists and city police departments in a dither. This year's increase, after all, is as mysterious as the previous ebb, and there's nothing more disconcerting to urban policy makers than inexplicable fluctuations in crime...
...tough message. Time is running out with this administration. Both men have to accept the fact that ?neither side can get a hundred percent of what it wants,? she said. ?The tough decisions that must be made won't become any easier? the longer the two of them dither...