Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file cops in San Diego hired Teamsters professionals for $150,000 to negotiate their contract, and the Chicago Patrolmen's Association has endorsed a Teamsters' bid to organize local cops...
Shooflies Buzz. So far, the cops have not enlisted widespread support for such plaints. For example, the American Bar Association standards for police recommend that "law-enforcement policy not be the subject of collective bargaining." But cops on the street are unconvinced, and they increasingly rank the brass and the bureaucracy along with criminals on their enemies list. Boston police computers now keep a minute-by-minute check on patrolmen, even spewing out suggested time limits for each particular call. "Christ," explodes Patrolman William Hill, "I go out to where a guy is beating the hell out of his wife...
...Israeli officials, the refugees' lack of interest in becoming citizens of the Jewish state seems like rank ingratitude and an affront to Zionist faith. The refugees, however, regard their free choice of a country as a natural human right that had long been denied them in the U.S.S.R. Many Russian Jews have been put off by reports of difficult conditions for refugees in Israel. Others are plainly fearful of subjecting themselves and their children to the ever present danger of war with the Arab world. Asked one would-be U.S. immigrant from the Soviet Union: "After having suffered...
...finally taken a firm grip on the top of the ratings, if not on the hearts and minds of television critics and the other amateur moral philosophers who keep outraged eyes on the tube. Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, its vulgarly nostalgic sitcoms, so far this season rank first and second among regularly scheduled programs, while Baretta, the ethnic undercover cop, and The Bionic Woman are right up there near Charlie's Angels among the leading action-adventure shows...
...said he believes most ratings in all Houses "were generally up across the board." He added that the office had not explicitly tried to rank the Houses in terms of student preferences...