Word: fuzziest
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Among the many gray areas and judgment calls in law enforcement, disorderly conduct is one of the fuzziest. Just ask Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., arrested July 16 after yelling accusations of racism at an officer responding to a reported break-in at his home. Statutes outlining the misdemeanor are designed to help police maintain authority, and they are broadly worded; deciding what constitutes disorderly conduct is typically at an officer's discretion...
...enforcement, there are few situations that are clear-cut, and disorderly conduct is one of the fuzziest. As Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. now knows all too well, the misdemeanor charge can be used to corral people who are simply uncooperative or rude. State statutes are designed to help police officers maintain authority, and they are so broadly worded that divining what constitutes disorderly conduct is left up to the discretion of individual officers. "It's probably the most abused statute in America," says Eugene O'Donnell, a professor of law and police studies at John Jay College...
...this wasn't a number that could be fiddled. Much as donor nations might have liked to round the overall number down, the costs of AIDS defy even the fuzziest bureaucratic math. So the U.N. stuck with an estimate of $7 billion to $10 billion a year, a number reinforced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last week, and the Bush Administration stuck with its plan to contribute $200 million to a global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, a fifth of what the U.N. had hoped for. To a problem that will kill more than 2 million Africans this year, many...
...signature tax cut, he kept criticizing "the man's" (that would be Gore's) "fuzzy math." But when he couldn't rebut the Gore argument that nearly one-half of his tax cut would end up enriching the top 1% of Americans, it was Bush who was fuzziest...