Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best candidates." Fitzsimmons says. "There is no target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best candidates. Fitzsimmons describes Blacks who applied for the Class of '85 as "very, very strong," but adds that they weren't as competitive compared with other applicants as they were the year before...
...wide open, and there was no fear of being mugged. I think there was a lot more freedom than there is now, more taken-for-granted courtesy...And another thing," he adds, with the air of someone who chose Dartmouth for its "cloistered" atmosphere, "There was no stereo. You weren't compelled to listen to the blast from other's machines...
Maybe the problem is that the show's creators did not follow Sergeant Esterhaus' advice: they weren't careful out there. Writers-Producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Producer Gregory Hoblit and Director Robert Butler devised a "cop show" with no screaming car chases, no shining superheroes or disposable villains, no instant solutions to a ghetto full of predators and wary prey. Each episode tracks a day in the life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied...
...Summerville, S.C. (pop. 6,300), for example, the town received $200,000 of their $1.4 million budget from Washington last year. They promptly spent the money not on operating costs but on new police, fire and sanitation equipment. Says Town Administrator John F. Wilbanks: "We decided long ago we weren't going to rely on the Federal Government to pay for this town precisely because what they give us they could just as easily take away...
...stake, a wife, a child of four, and the brass of a born capitalist. Now 78, with wire-rimmed trifocals, thin white hair and a deeply lined face, Ted looks like a kindly drugstore man out of Norman Rockwell. In earlier pictures, he looked more serious and resolute. "We weren't trying to make it rich," he recalls. "We were trying to make a living...