Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most large police forces, a small percentage of aggressive cops do the dirty work. The rest simply punch their time cards, respond only when called and wait for their pensions. "Many cops go their whole careers without making an arrest," says Joseph McNamara, a former police chief of San Jose, Calif. "The small number of aggressive officers every department has, and needs, are the ones we rely on to clean things...
...illegal that way, but then you go and get a warrant later [and falsify the report], saying you made the buy yourself." Or, adds Schoolboy, "you drop a dime, which means you call in a 'shots fired' alarm to 911. Sometimes you even fire your own gun. Then you wait for the shots-fired call to come over the radio, and you respond to your own call. It's all made up, but it makes the raid legal." It's so routine, says Blondie, "that sometimes we'd laugh and say, 'Gee, which story should we use today? How about...
...answer: just wait. "Helen's an old soul," says her manager and business partner, Connie Tavel, who met Hunt 15 years ago on a women's baseball team. (Typically, Hunt worked so hard honing her skills as a second baseman that at season's end, she was voted "most improved player.") "She was never an ingenue. Now she's growing into her old self. The part of her that kept her from roles at 19 has given her balance and success...
...remember Achy Breaky Heart, the Macarena of the summer of 1992?) or novelty act (LeAnn Rimes, who was 13 when her yodeling debut album, Blue, rose high on the pop charts last year). Even in the core regions CD sales are flat, and a malaise--or at best, a wait-and-hope--grips the industry. Three of Billboard's top six country albums last week were greatest-hits collections. That's too much deja vu for a modern-music genre...
...were more generous with our judgements, perhaps we wouldn't have to wait until someone died or until something else dramatic happened to see the more meaningful side of people. As students, we are trained to be careful critics of everything, never to open a book or newspaper without an eye to its flaws. Yet if we looked at the people around us with a concerted effort to discover the best in them, might it be possible that they wouldn't seem so annoying to us after...