Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police are also obtaining information from tire tracks left at the crime site. The man they most often call is Peter McDonald, a veteran designer of tires with Firestone. He can identify almost any tire made and, with the added distinctive details provided by the individual way a tire tread wears down, McDonald has helped solve six murders. In one case, McDonald was first able to show that the car of a suspect in custody did not have the right tires; he then helped nail the actual killers...
...legitimate grievances? And why, When the need for internal vigilance is increasing, have companies muzzled their employees, and the government only paid lip service to protecting civil servants? . . . Why not call them whistleblowers and let it go at that? . . . Why do some venture? And why do others fear to tread? Why do most of those who don't step out inevitably turn against those who do? Why, in a society rife with corruption and vulnerable to environmental disaster, does it seem to be a national policy to discourage inside witnesses? And what, if anything, is the public going...
...review process is complete and does issue that a case is thoroughly investigated before punishment is moved out. But in some cases, the safeguards against capricious board ruling are unnecessarily restrictive. The board is right to tread slowly in considering cases raising important medical questions of an individual's competence, possibly malpractice, or even drinking habits. But in cases involving doctors who have already been convicted of crimes, the board's scrutiny should be much shorter and quicker. Had the board been empowered to review in speedy fashion a doctor's case immediately after his conviction, Arif Hussain could never...
...risk"--that students might feel denied a privilege and act on it. That gamble seems slight compared to the risk Harvard runs--and has not entirely avoided--by maintaining a preferential, stereotype-reinforcing lottery; it is one that Harvard's Ivy rivals have taken successfully. Harvard is right to tread slowly when it may be encroaching on student privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like that of a truly integrated University community, in which the individual's opportunity for inter group mingling is great--are at stake. Circumscribing those chances...
...early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread the fine line between taking positions that would incite violence and bloodshed and perhaps [Soviet] intervention on the one hand, and avoid positions which would acquiesce in the repression of Polish reform on the other...