Word: fear
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Ronald Davis, the chief of police in East Palo Alto, Calif., and former captain of the Oakland Police Department, said the “code of silence is not a sinister plot—that’s what makes it so dangerous.” He said officers fear that telling the truth about colleagues’ misdeeds will harm their careers, and he tries to encourage openness. “Police solidarity,” he said, comes from a “we versus them mentality”, which he agreed leads...
...biggest fear for technology companies is that the court might impose a block on an entire class of patents - in this case patents dealing with business methods...
...country:"What do you think the effect that two million Afghans martyred, 70% of Afghanistan destroyed, and our economy eliminated has had on us? Half our people are mad. A man who is thirty or forty years old looks like he is seventy years old. We always live in fear. We are not secure anywhere in Afghanistan, whether in Kabul or Jalalabad." (See pictures of Afghanistan's mean streets...
...whole generation will remember you as Edward. You're a generational crush. Is that hard to live up to or difficult to accept? There's no living up to it. I think the major fear is just fighting too hard against it. Most people who have a downfall from a like situation is when they do try to fight, and fight and fight: I'm not this teenybopper person, blah, blah, blah. Even if a lot of people see me and the franchise as like that, I never have, at any point. But I don't feel the need...
...look back in shame at how those with power were allowed to abuse those who had none," Rudd told an audience of 1,000 in Canberra on Monday. "The truth is this is an ugly story, and its ugliness must be told without fear or favor if we are to confront fully the demons of our past. And in so doing, animate it once again the better angels of our human nature...