Word: pulling
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Most law-enforcement officials have steadfastly denied that their officers engage in racial profiling. And the practice has been difficult to prove because few police agencies record the race of the drivers they pull over. An important exception came in a study last month by the attorney general of New Jersey, who found that police brass unofficially encouraged state troopers to stop blacks and Hispanics in disproportionate numbers as part of a campaign to increase drug arrests. Two troopers were later suspended and indicted on charges of falsifying records to conceal racial profiling. (They pleaded not guilty.) A judge dismissed...
...learned in Somalia. More immediately, with the Serbs on the way out and NATO not yet in, K.L.A. soldiers spoiling for a fight will soon have free run of the province. Says a senior NATO officer in Macedonia: "We have to be in as soon as the Yugoslav troops pull out in order to fill the vacuum." Otherwise, K.L.A. forces may zip in and wreak vengeance on the estimated 100,000 Serb civilians remaining in the province. While few envision the K.L.A.'s fighting NATO, it's clear the rebel army has no plans to disappear...
...more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. When they sing the song of summer in Philadelphia, they aren't kidding. Across much of the U.S. these days, summer school is in great demand for kids who flunk standardized tests and must either pull up their scores or repeat a grade. But summer school costs money, and with rare exceptions over the past 10 years, Philly's public schools haven...
...into dusty corners of the basement. The acting principal, Dianne Scott, wears sneakers to hike to annexes No. 8 and No. 3, which are more than four blocks away, but hip waders would have been better during a storm on May 24. The playground flooded, and she had to pull two classes out of trailers that looked like houseboats...
...moribund state until Muhammad Ali--Cassius Clay, in those days--appeared on the scene. "Just when the sweet science appears to lie like a painted ship upon a painted ocean," wrote A.J. Liebling, "a new Hero...comes along like a Moran tug to pull it out of the ocean...