Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police insensitivity to prostitutes' problems and PUMA's ambitions is to be expected. A report released by the Boston Police Department last year documented widespread corruption and dereliction of duty among the police patrolling the Combat Zone. Prostitutes live in a very delicate coexistence with the law: no prostitute has formally charged any policeman with rape or blackmail even though, according to the report, such arts occur. Weeks says, "The police down the Zone get away clear. They take you in the paddy wagon and say, "If you blow me, I'll let you go," Doyle replies to these accusations...
Charles H. Warren, speaking at an Institute of Politics study group at Leverett House, said the council will submit the report to President Carter for approval...
...council prepares guidelines for other federal agencies, prepares a report on the state of the environment, and makes recommendations regarding the environment to the president and Congress...
...took a while for them to reveal the lies. Even if they had spoken the language and could have asked the Vietnamese how they felt about the war, it would have taken a while for the correspondents to begin doubting the army's statements. It was one thing to report how we were doing in Vietnam; it was another to question why we were doing...
...language necessary to describe a horrifying war. The real story of Vietnam, Herr says, was lost amid the statistics, the jargon, the officials' optimistic statements. Herr writes: "The press got all the facts (more or less), it got too many of them. But it never found a way to report meaningfully about death, which of course was what it was really all about...