Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though much of the evidence is anecdotal, experts in policing say the verbal skills many women officers possess often have a calming effect that defuses potentially explosive situations. "As a rule, they tend to be much more likely to go in and talk rather than try to get control in a way that makes everyone defensive," says Joanne Belknap, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. Women cops, she has found, perceive themselves as peacekeepers and negotiators. "We're like pacifiers in these situations," says Lieut. Helen DeWitte, a 21-year veteran of the Chicago force...
Buchanan, 53, has not trimmed his verbal sails since beginning his effort to oust the traitorous George Bush, whose cave-in on taxes was "the Yalta of the Republican Party." He uses Bushspeak a la Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey to lambaste the President for breaking his tax pledge and begs Bush to debate him "at the country club of his choice." His regular stump speech extolling isolationism, protectionism and fiscal stinginess is seasoned with attacks on "boodling" Congressmen, upholstered think tanks cooking up cockeyed new programs, and softheaded Trilateralists who would bail out Chinese communist Deng Xiaoping...
...Beyond represents a move away from her more musically-oriented efforts, like Home of the Brave and Strange Angels. Her Sanders Theatre performance relies on something more subtle and elusive than big synthesized sound. Anderson must enthrall the audience (for the most part) with her own insight and verbal acuity. For the most part she succeeds in this ambitious enterprise. Voices continually refers to the meaning of the future--one can't help but wonder what the future will mean for innovative Laurie Anderson...
...American cars. "The Americans themselves have done little to penetrate our market," says Nissan president Yutaka Kume. "They must try harder." Beyond that, Kume would not mind if Americans like Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, whose comments about Japanese honesty and fairness Kume calls "outrageous and insulting," would cease their verbal assaults and get on with selling cars...
...from psychiatry -- or that they need more coaching. A male advantage in math could be used to confine girls to essays and sonnets -- or the decision could be made to compensate by putting more effort into girls' math education. In effect, we already compensate for boys' apparent handicap in verbal skills by making reading the centerpiece of grade-school education...