Word: grimiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stress," says John Johnston, a 20- year veteran of the Los Angeles police department. The criminals, he takes in stride: "Dealing with bad guys is why I became a cop. What gets you down is the bureaucracy." In his office in the L.A.P.D.'s Northeast division, which includes the grimiest stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, the computers are antique, the shotguns routinely fail during practice and the cars in the lot are monuments to budgetary restraints: the odometers read 132,000 miles...
...cane in the other, Tshaka, 95, waited patiently in line to vote last week -- like all South Africa's black citizens, for the first time in his life. He shook off offers of help, walking unsteadily but unaided into the polling station in Guguletu, one of the toughest and grimiest of the black townships around Cape Town. Minutes later he emerged, a broad grin lighting his face. "I never thought I would see this day," he said...
...Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania that their time was up. Back in 1970, activists capitalized on an outpouring of environmental sentiment during the first Earth Day to unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could much of the Third World, where billions of people grievously stretch the capacity of forests and other resources...