Word: superiors
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...August 1982, superior officers of the New York Police Department gathered at the Police Academy to hear the words of George L. Kelling, director of the Kennedy School of Government's criminal justice program. Kelling was in New York to talk about an article from the March 1982 edition of the Atlantic Monthly that he co-authored with James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government...
...most of these turbulences, the presence of superior force was decisive. During Watergate, the U.S. went through its most serious political crisis in the 20th century without any bloodshed. Richard Nixon's illegal abuses of power led to congressional hearings, court trials and Supreme Court decisions. By these constitutional processes, he was forced to resign. The system, it was said, worked. In his memoirs, Henry Kissinger added a bizarre footnote. Nixon's chief deputy, Al Haig, once warned Kissinger that "it may be necessary to put in the 82nd Airborne Division around the White House" to protect...
...gave up trying to remain anonymous. The Finkbines joined Hospital Administrator Stephen Morris in asking Superior Court for a declaratory judgment to bar any legal reprisals. Sherri Finkbine's health, said her attorneys, "is such that the termination of her pregnancy is necessary for the preservation and saving of her life...
Harvard was selected for the project over MIT and Bank Street College in New York Although the University's proposal was the most expensive, the NIE felt Harvard had superior technological facilities and better contact with local school systems, Wilson explained...
Though Afro-American politics is presently only at the formative stage of this kind of political maturation--compared, say, to Jewish-American politics--the importance of Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy is its potential for generating political benefits infinitely superior to those produced by Black leadership heretofore. And no one is more aware of this than Jesse Jackson himself: "My running," Jackson remarks, "will stimulate thousands to run [for elected office]: it would make millions register. If you can get your share of legislators, mayors, sheriffs, school-board members, tax assessors and dog-catchers, you can live...