Word: droppingly
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L.A.P.D. records, which do not list excessive-force complaints separately, show an overall drop in claims and lawsuits against the 7,900-man force since 1985. But statistics from the Police Misconduct Lawyers Referral Service, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group that counsels police-abuse victims, suggest the department's figures are misleading. The group's executive director, Karol Heppe, says the agency receives more than 200 police-abuse and rights-violation complaints each month. L.A.P.D. spokesmen concede that the department's reputation for no-nonsense law enforcement is justified. But they deny charges of widespread overaggressiveness or brutality...
...twentysomething crowd is balking at those rites of passage. A prime reason is their recognition that the American Dream is much tougher to achieve after years of housing-price inflation and stagnant wages. Householders under the age of 25 were the only group during the 1980s to suffer a drop in income, a decline of 10%. One result: fully 75% of young males 18 to 24 years old are still living at home, the largest proportion since the Great Depression...
...Alan Guttmacher Institute. While having a child is one part of the full and complex life of a woman, it often turns out to be the % defining, and confining, fact of a teenager's existence. Eight out of 10 girls who have babies at 17 or younger drop out of high school. Children born of teenagers are much more likely to grow up in poverty and be undereducated and poorly housed. Children born of teenage mothers are twice as likely to die in infancy as are those born of women in their 20s, and they are much more likely...
...even their recent peacefulness can apparently be held against them. "The Federal Republic is unique among the great powers in ((that)) it came to life without a drop of blood being shed in its birth," Arthur Miller wrote in the New York Times. "No German soldier can say, 'I fought for democracy' . . . What Germans lack now is the consecration by blood of their democratic state . . ." But whose blood should the Germans have shed in their "consecration," and what would Miller say if any German were foolish enough to offer such a gory theory of "democratic faith...
...sharp drop in newspaper readership is the survey's most dramatic, if least startling, revelation. Only 30% of Americans under 35 said they had "read a newspaper yesterday." That compares with 67% of young people who answered the question affirmatively in a 1965 Gallup poll. More surprisingly, TV has not filled the gap: only 41% of young people said they had watched a TV newscast the day before, down from...