Word: shoved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year veteran of the Chicago force who was the first woman in the department to be shot in the line of duty. Having women partners for 14 years taught San Francisco sergeant Tim Foley to use a softer touch with suspects, instead of always opening with a shove. "It's nonthreatening and disarming," he says, "and in the long run, it is easier than struggling...
...first glance, this imbroglio seems altogether annoying, as though the author has managed to gather up every PC gripe, put it in a pile, shove it in your face and then expect you to feel guilty. But in fact, the novel has the opposite effect. Franzen addresses the issues of the nineties with a sense of humor and honesty that sharpens interest, awareness and concern. He is able to articulate successfully sex and societal concerns. He craftily maneuvers his voice and his rich characters under your skin...
...Monique Pillard contend that Elite was entitled to handle the job since the agency represents Campbell in New York. At one point they even fired their star model, but soon reconciled. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this," fumes Pillard. "I spent three years trying to shove Naomi down S.I.'s throat." The Fords insist that since the photo shoot was in Europe, Ford France was entitled to handle the assignment...
...bunch of boys in Glen Ridge, N.J., all of them on the high school football team, think it is fun to shove baseball bats and broom handles into the vagina of a retarded girl, a girl with an I.Q. of 64? This isn't sex. It is violence. The Glen Ridge case hasn't been decided yet, but it doesn't really matter what is ultimately decided. What bothers me is why they think that...
Company myths can be misleading. At Nomura Securities, Japan's largest brokerage house, the corporate lore is rich with images of untiring devotion to the interests of the small investor. But when push came to shove during last year's disastrous decline in the Tokyo stock market, Nomura ignored its own myth. Rather than helping small investors, the company furtively paid out millions of dollars to a few large corporate customers to cover losses they had suffered in the market's fall. Even worse, Nomura had allegedly helped arrange loans to Susumu Ishii, the onetime leader of one of Japan...