Word: sectionalism
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...case elsewhere in Asia, enforcement is the weakest link in the road-safety chain. "Police corruption is widespread in China. That's no secret," says Liu, a crew-cut, 37-year-old traffic cop who declined to give his full name. "It's especially true in the traffic section. If you help spring a murderer, you're going to feel a heavy psychological burden. But if you help a friend beat a traffic fine, you feel nothing." The Beijing cop says most policemen he knows have helped get friends or acquaintances off the hook for traffic violations. "It's become...
...family of performing professionals. I was as close to the entertainment industry as my section of the Corliss clan got, And as a critic, of course, I?m basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra...
Wilkins added that classmates in Obama’s section “commonly thought of him as the most talented person in the section. People talked about him being on the national ticket even back then...
Planting myself in the nosebleed section alongside a Democratic News Service staffer, I again naively held out hope that “The Cross of Gold” was not far off. While Schuker schmoozed a blogger in front of us, the staffer bemoaned the lack of network coverage—just an hour a night with nothing on Tuesday...
...slipping away unrewarded. Doctors in charge disagree about how to best save the mother and the baby. They deal with this crisis with that provocative detachment of men dealing with death without being vulnerable to it. While the majority of doctors insist on the need for a caesarian section, there are a few-one of which is the leading doctor in this hospital-who believe that the mother is not giving enough effort to make this process work. Despite the fact that the majority prefers active intervention, the doctors submit to the will of the few, and they all stand...