Word: kinsey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes erroneous numbers are used innocently; they're the best available figures though everyone knows they're guesstimates. Kinsey's were the only statistics on sex for years. No one in America really has a clue as to the size of the illicit drug trade, though multibillion-dollar figures are commonly tossed around. Mitch Snyder, the late activist for the homeless, once admitted his figures on people without shelter were essentially meaningless. "We have tried to satisfy your gnawing curiosity for a number," he told a congressional hearing, "because we are Americans with Western little minds that have to quantify...
...seeking to win political clout and public acceptance, gays and their leaders have long sought refuge in numbers -- specifically in the 10% figure for homosexuality that Alfred Kinsey turned up in his 1948 study of human sexuality. Since then, the famous 10% has slipped into treatises and talk shows, and not just because there were few other studies to refute it. It was also good propaganda. "It became part of our vocabulary," says Kramer. "Democracy is all about proving you have the numbers. The more numbers you can prove you have, the more likely you'll get your...
...city residents for many conciliatory gestures. In a town accustomed to faceless cops in prowl cars and helicopters, the new chief is promoting community policing, which encourages contact between officers and the neighborhoods they patrol. "Willie Williams is the best thing that's happened to this city," says Bernard Kinsey, the co-chairman of RLA. "He's been getting his officers to work at treating the citizens as customers. They used to give immigrants $52 jaywalking tickets; that was a week's wages in some cases. He's saying, 'Let's look at the human side of things, maybe just...
...remarks, the Harvard Radcliffe. Black Business Association presented Kinsey with the first annual H. Naylor Pitzhugh Memorial Award for has work in helping African "Members advance economically...
...Kinsey was also presented with a special commendation from the Harvard foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations