Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular sore point is the unit's aggressive use of "stop and frisk" tactics. Of the 27,061 people its officers frisked last year, more than 80% were unarmed, which suggests that the cops felt they needed little in the way of probable cause to stop someone. Critics say the frisks are overly intrusive and unequally applied. "They will shake you down because of the color of your skin or the way you dress," charges Dinkins. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan last week launched a probe of N.Y.P.D. tactics...
...characters are badly drawn cartoons, the jokes offensive stereotypes and the plots a bad cross of the Keystone Kops and Three's Company. Sure, Fawlty Towers was also based on silly misunderstandings and coincidences, but it carefully built toward a manic, slapstick conclusion. In the original show you felt bad about laughing at the mistreated bellboy's broken English; now you just feel...
...origin makes it seem abstract and irrelevant to everyday lives. Will cloning be a technology of the very wealthy and the depraved, sneaking up on the rest of the world without its understanding? Perhaps, like nuclear warfare or human eugenics, the full meaning of cloning will be felt only when we get a taste of its abuse...
While many felt the rigor and involvement of Harvard academics was not replicated abroad, most were struck by how a change in the way they were learning complemented their Harvard experience...
Those students who used their Advanced Standingstatus as a means to go abroad, instead ofpetitioning for credit, felt that it relieved muchof the pressure of staying on track in theiracademic careers...