Word: resorted
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...professor of criminal law at the University of Wisconsin. "The neighborhood support gives police a greater sense of confidence and authority, which reduces their need for using force. If police officers feel they don't have the authority, the power, to handle a situation, they're more likely to resort to brute force." Referring to the L.A.P.D.'s beating of Rodney King, Goldstein says, "It's incomprehensible that a police officer imbued with community policing would engage in that type of behavior...
...planes, which cost over a billion dollars to develop, easily exceed the Air Force's stringent performance requirements. Both can cruise at supersonic speeds without having to resort to fuel-gulping afterburners, and they have twice the range of the F-15. The aircraft use advanced computerized controls and simplified screens to lighten the pilot's work load. Both candidates incorporate the latest radar-evading "stealthy" features. They pack as much as 20 times the data-processing power of an F-15 for spotting hostile aircraft before being seen themselves...
Since Iraq's T-72 tanks rolled into Kuwait seven months ago, special correspondent Michael Kramer has flown to Saudi Arabia on five separate occasions to report on the war. During each trip, he made sure to go to the mountainous resort of Taif to visit with Kuwait's ruling family and the government in exile. In his story this week, Kramer shares his unique perspective on the Kuwaitis and tells what he found when he entered the ransacked shell of Kuwait City with six Kuwaiti ministers...
...unemployment rate in the late 1980s was a dismal 17 percent. Many of Ireland's best and brightest have left their homeland with their superb education for 'the West,' only to be denied a home in the United States due to immigration quotas. These young people are forced to resort to living as illegal aliens, taking jobs in nursing, child care, and forms of menial labor...
Baker warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that the cease-fire agreement in the Persian Gulf War imposed strict limits on his military operations. The implication was that the United States might resort to force to restrict his tactics in conflicts with rebels...