Word: preventive
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...sensitivity training" for male recruits, and tougher screening of drill instructors. It's a good public relations exercise, says TIME military correspondent Mark Thompson. "Because of the Army's relatively swift action, most people will think the situation was handled fairly." In other words, this is an effort to prevent the Aberdeen training camp controversy from becoming as embarassing as the 1991 Tailhook scandal was for the Navy...
Despite residents' surprise, Harvard has a history of buying land through a third party to prevent land owners from inflating their prices, according to Sally H. Zeckhauser, vice president for administration. In particular, the land where the College's river houses now sit was bought this...
Robert J. Morse, research director for the America's Best Colleges issue of U.S. News and World Report, said the magazine has been considering this change for some time to prevent statistically insignificant differences between schools from affecting the rankings...
Indeed, pretrial motions planned by Espy's lawyers could slim the indictment down by the time the case goes to trial, possibly next spring or summer. Some charges are based on a law to prevent meat inspectors from being bribed into approving unsavory products--a rarely used statute and one never before applied to a Secretary of Agriculture. Another area where Smaltz may have trouble before a judge or jury: sources close to Tyson say the football tickets and other items were solicited by Espy's then girlfriend, without his direction...
...tough cops who prevent crime; it is citizens' respect for the law. And these brutality cases do incalculable damage to police credibility with poor and minority citizens--those most in need of protection and without whose cooperation the police cannot be effective. We need to impress upon cops, in New York and everywhere else, that a free society is directed by its citizens...