Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of cops walking the beat-- a central tenet of community policing--is not being implemented, and patrol officers themselves are the major obstacle...
When the city hired Ronnie L. Watson to be itschief of police in 1996, the idea of communitypolicing was in place. It was up to Watson to putit into practice...
Sears said this meeting would have been the opportunity for clubs to decide to hold a spring punch, but none of them discussed the idea...
...want a service area on the New Jersey Turnpike named after me. It seems unlikely that the Turnpike Authority, which had honored a number of Garden State luminaries in that manner, would turn to an ordinary driver who is not from New Jersey, but I thought that nipping the idea in the bud was the sort of thing a prudent citizen did in preparing for his eventual demise. So I was surprised to learn last week that Joe DiMaggio--a man who raised preparation to an art form, a man who planted himself in center field so perfectly for each...
Julius Miller, a former Manhattan Borough President, was mentioned in passing last week because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--living proof that not all American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani...