Word: grist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handful of them men. "None of us want to go back to the control-oriented, negative-discipline sort of time." There are a few nods as Watson, a forceful speaker, reminds them of the days when the informal police motto was "Nobody ever got fired for doing nothing." All grist for her message: Watson is committed to the citywide adoption of Neighborhood Oriented Policing, the experimental program that her predecessor and mentor, Lee Brown, championed. "If we continue as we have done in the past," she says, "we're doomed...
...grist for her artistic mill is the jagged facts of her life. To sort these out you have to suspend normal conventions of reality and place yourself in her screenplay childhood. "Other people's fantasy was my reality," she says...
Hence his every action becomes grist for analysis. Saddam's obsession with security, which includes periodic purges of the party and the military, may merely be prudent, though some analysts see hints of paranoia. Yet most are convinced that Saddam is cunningly sane. "He is not a lunatic," says a high- ranking Israeli intelligence official. "He is a megalomaniac, but he is rational." Concurs Philip Robins, head of Middle East programs at the London- based Royal Institute of International Affairs: "He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every move...
...Japan don't perceive themselves as nations of bigots. Neither condones violence or the persecution of minorities. But both see themselves as possessing a certain superiority -- cultural in France, ethnic in Japan -- and they are uncomfortable with the presence of aliens. Such largely unspoken social attitudes frequently provide the grist for demagogic politicians to transform into blatantly racist actions and policies. But as the following reports also illustrate, the governments in Paris and Tokyo are increasingly aware of their problem and are trying to deal with both public outrages and long-standing prejudices...
There is at least some possibility of a coalition that would unite angry conservatives in the party with worried bureaucrats at all levels and military men who resent their increasing role in controlling ethnic rebellion. "There is grist for their mill," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow of such opponents. "They want to restore centralization, keep the country strong. It's a prescription for a real Russian-dominated empire." If disorder does increase, he adds, "maybe a leader will emerge...