Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then goes on to outline its aftermath in meticulous detail, from the hours Nancy spends combing through police mug shots to the frustrating plea bargaining necessary to close the case. The author presents what appears to be a best-case scenario (the victim sustains no lasting physical injuries, all officialdom is uniformly kind and civil) while managing to skewer upper-middle-class denial in the face of shocking events. But the woman's constant tug-of-war between pursuing justice and putting the horror behind her is a painfully real -- and often hopelessly contradictory -- struggle the reader shares at every...
Each month the Thai embassy in Tokyo repatriates about 250 escapees. But Japanese officialdom has been largely indifferent to the plight of prostitutes, and there are several recorded instances in which police, especially in rural areas, have handed escaping girls back to their abusers. Three recent murders -- Thai prostitutes who killed their "Mama-sans," or female bosses, while trying to escape -- are focusing attention on the women's plight. Citizens' groups, believing the accused are less in the wrong than the deceased, are lobbying for a fair trial. "When I arrived in March 1991, I realized I was sold...
Finally, the gears of Harvard officialdom ground into motion. Knowles formed a subcommittee to the Educational Policy Committee to look into the possibilities for ethnic studies in the Harvard curriculum...
...Martin Luther King and Malcolm X murders. To sociologist Amitai Etzioni, the fascination with these questions reflects a need to explain life's inexplicable dark side: Why did all these heroes die? That tendency is encouraged by America's individualism, which encourages an instinctive distrust of authority and officialdom...
...came piecemeal, and some were at first immobilized by lack of logistic support. Despite the large staff now in place, UNTAC has had difficulty asserting control over the Hun Sen administration. In the provinces, the handful of U.N. civil servants found themselves powerless in the face of entrenched local officialdom backed by all the government's resources, including police and troops...