Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sergeants, the middle managers of her department, all but a handful of them men. "None of us want to go back to the control-oriented, negative-discipline sort of time." There are a few nods as Watson, a forceful speaker, reminds them of the days when the informal police motto was "Nobody ever got fired for doing nothing." All grist for her message: Watson is committed to the citywide adoption of Neighborhood Oriented Policing, the experimental program that her predecessor and mentor, Lee Brown, championed. "If we continue as we have done in the past," she says, "we're doomed...
...defensive. His response -- "This time, don't be taken in by the sleaze" -- failed to quench the fear and resentment ignited by Helms' adroit strategy. Said Professor Merle Black of Emory University: "It was a 1990s version of 'Wake up, white people,' " a motto of white supremacists 40 years...
With the specter of recession looming across the U.S., consumers and companies have cut back their spending. Yet Swiss jeweler Piaget, whose motto is "Always do better than is necessary," is betting that the time is ripe for a new round of conspicuous consumption. Later this month Piaget will unveil its $1 million, gem-encrusted Aura watch, a flashy bauble that sports 237 diamonds set in an 18-karat-gold band and case...
...Souter's staff defended the Governor in a suit to prevent him from lowering the American and state flags over state buildings on Good Friday. In another Thomson crusade, Souter's staff unsuccessfully defended the state's attempts to prosecute residents who for religious reasons covered up the state motto -- "Live Free or Die" -- on their license tags...
...Houston, the West Europeans proposed aid to the Soviet Union and restrictions on greenhouse gases. Their American hosts privately grumbled about how expensive those proposals were, then publicly resorted to the oldest cop-out in the book -- form a committee and study the problem. The U.S. has a new motto: better to buy time than spend money, and if someone has to pay, better it be someone else. That's why the Germans and the Japanese, with their deep pockets, are particularly welcome at gatherings like last week...