Word: impressionism
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"The impression I've been given is that [the installation of the fire alarm] is going to happen, but I have not been told very much," Kitchin said.
The final reform was the all but universal adoption of the 911 system for emergency calls. With that, police were reduced to chasing from one crime scene to another, all the while consolidating the bleakest impression of the people they served. A recent study found that New York City police...
Community policing is reshaping police forces themselves. Some police academies are revamping their curriculums to train cadets in social-service skills. To dispel the impression in minority neighborhoods that police are a white army of occupation, many CPOP plans require increased hiring of minority officers.
WAR FEVER by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $18.95). Although he became known as a writer of science fiction, that term has never adequately defined J.G. Ballard, whose works include Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel (he was born in Shanghai in 1930, to British parents...
Yeltsin's popularity stems partly from the impression he conveys that he understands the daily frustrations of Russian life. Nothing has endeared him more to ordinary people than his denunciation of the privileges of the political elite. In his autobiography, Against the Grain, Yeltsin describes the opulence of the Politburo...