Word: profession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What planet are these white people living on, the ones who profess such shocked surprise at the Mark Fuhrman tapes? Haven't they heard what black people have been telling them all these years: that the ranks of major police departments all across the country are full of Fuhrman-style lying bigots? Not all cops, by any means, not even most of them, but enough to generate a steady stream of racially motivated police misconduct. Most of it never makes the national news--the hundreds of cases in which minority suspects are manhandled, beaten or even killed. But certainly...
...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...
...video-game makers profess to be unconcerned by the threat from the computer industry. Instead, they spent most of last week blasting one another, rather like characters from one of their games, challenging their competitors' statistics, sneering at the performance of their systems and doing their best to keep one another off balance...
...there's more for the lucky dean. He'll be appearing in a series of spots for Mountain Dew as well, with the slogan "Just Dew Ett." Joined by other titans of college administration, Jewett will profess the outright wussiness of the housing decision when compared to the chest-hair-inducing powers of a certain near-fluorescent caffeinated beverage...
...billion a year to religion, plus untold hours of volunteer labor. Four out of 10 adults regularly tell Gallup they attended worship in the past week--and even if that count is inflated by good intentions, it still vastly surpasses weekly professional-sports attendance. An overwhelming 95% of Americans profess belief...