Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words of Officer Paul Grady, "quite the urban crime fighter." Wheeling rugged 18-speed mountain bikes into parks, doorways, narrow alleys and even under viaducts, Seattle's squad of 20 bike officers has averaged five times the number of arrests made by downtown foot patrols over the past two years...
...past, it could be argued, ignorance led us astray. Having been trained to see women and minorities as subhuman, how could these great white males conceive of any contribution from other quarters...
Haven't we recognized the flaws in Western thought and culture in the past 20 years? Since the Civil Rights and the Women's Liberation Movements of the 1960s and '70s, most Americans will admit to the biases that have infected our past perceptions...
Unless we would hold that the past decades have wrought no change in our society, then the traditional approach to the study of Western civilization is seriously flawed. By removing those thinkers from our characterization of Western civilization, we are defining ourselves as we were, not as we are, or as we should strive...
Williams has boosted his ratings in the past year with heavy criticism of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and other Democratic leaders for the way they handled the state budget crisis. He said his support for the ballot proposal was a natural extension of his battle against "the centers of power" in Massachusetts...