Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cutting crime rates in the city and applying corporate managment techniques to the New York City police department. "I am leaving an organization I have come to love dearly," Bratton said at a City Hall news conference. Giuliani dismissed allegations that Bratton's departure was related to an ego problem between the two men. Instead, Guiliani called Bratton's tenure "exceptional" and a "turning point in the department." The mayor even praised Bratton for making the cover of TIME magazine and earning the city good publicity. "These are two men who both want to run the city," reports TIME...
...only social conservatives who urge it. By now, almost everyone agrees that shame is socially indispensable--the individual's internal police department. Without a barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration-of-the-day television talk shows, tacky and moralistic by turn, the sleepwalking rhythms interrupted at precise intervals by bursts of bright commercial adrenaline...
...know how to draw the line only after they have crossed it. Unlike Amendola, they act idle, bored, and in need of distraction. And Burren cuts through her scenes with the impatient airs of someone conniving to fools' detriment. She, too, is flighty but with panache and an ego entirely liberated from its conscience...
...government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
Lewis' famed ego was in evidence throughout the evening...