Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after three years of preparation, Emily Stauffer, one of the best women's soccer players ever to wear a Harvard uniform, had created the perfect template for her senior season...
Museveni called Southwick's noisy exit "rude." He is tired of the "shallowness" of Western thinking that demands that Uganda instantly model its politics on the U.S. "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform," says Museveni. He believes Uganda has not "evolved" to the stage of development where multiparty democracy is possible or successful; it is still a preindustrial society that does not have enough of the well-off, well-educated middle class upon which Western democracy rests, so parties form along tribal, sectarian lines...
...institutional machinery to discourage brutality works without a clear message from the top that bad cops are bad news. New York's Giuliani may have sent out the wrong signal even before he was elected. While still a candidate, he addressed a wild demonstration of 10,000 out-of-uniform officers who assembled outside city hall to protest the decision by then Mayor David Dinkins to establish the city's civilian review board. After taking office, Giuliani was repeatedly accused of dragging his feet on hiring investigators for the board. Last year, when he tried to cut a fourth...
...Clinton tap this trend? Last week he chewed over three major initiatives with advisers, which could be introduced at a child-care conference to be conducted by Hillary in October. The current $1 billion federal block grant to subsidize child care for low-income parents will be raised. Because uniform federal standards would never pass Congress, Clinton will probably propose an incentive system to improve day-care quality, such as giving states money to provide training. The most ambitious idea would supply funds to local districts for after-school programs aimed at older students as well as primary schoolers. This...
Where we live in the summer, there are sometimes bears in the woods. Would it do me any good, while walking through the woods, to wear a Banff National Park warden's uniform? How would I go about obtaining a Banff National Park warden's uniform sufficiently authentic to fool a bear? And would it need to be delivered...