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Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
Charles Duhigg
Legal
Water
Sometimes
Local
Say
Systems
Must
Tried
Some
Above
Beyond
Safe
Protect
Go
Encountered
Overseeing
Very
Trying
Legally
Officials
Required
Who
Residents
Resistance
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Drinking
Risk
Drinking Water
Environment
Almost
Said
Years
Officials
Agency
Humans
Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
Charles Duhigg
Game
People
Top
Claims
System
Out
Fraudulent
Had
Said
Reduced
Dollars
Trying
Hands
Officials
Agency
Paid
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Keeping
Medicare
Number
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Charles Platt
Win
Political
Hacker
Down
Approval
Threat
Ritual
Up
Cracking
Officials
Public
Age-Old
Public Officials
Who
Playing
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
Chris Collins
Financial
Law
Submit
Release
Unnecessary
Because
Disclosure
Personal
Officials
Taxes
Elected
Elected Officials
Required
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.
Chris Murphy
Life
You
World
Fear
Political
About
Know
Most
Because
Officials
Want
Public
Elected
Elected Officials
Public Life
Paints
Portrait
Fundraising
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
Chris Smith
Silence
Fear
Political
Sense
Approval
Only
Void
Fail
Leaders
Particular
Wrongdoing
Vulnerability
Enables
Climate
Least
Demoralizing
Anti-Semitic
Denounce
Political Leaders
Contribute
Officials
Victims
Elected
Elected Officials
Actually
Violence
But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.
Cliff Stearns
Fight
Law
Crime
State
Citizens
District
Law Enforcement
About
Protect
Within
How
How Much
Heard
Officials
Jurisdiction
JAG
Them
Much
Enforcement
Across
Helps
Serve
Florida
Funding
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Daniel Ellsberg
Good
Lie
Nothing
Rule
Say
Administration
Pretty
Pretty Good
Look
Governments
Officials
They Say
Believed
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Citizen
Way
Individuals
Participation
Device
Induce
Officials
Whereby
Public
Act
Public Officials
Desire
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
Dave Freudenthal
Money
Sack
Throw
Simply
Safest
Course
Officials
Public
Public Officials
If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.
David Blunkett
God
Time
Home
Mistake
Immigration
Soil
Tough
First
Secretary
Guilty
Security
Put
French
First Time
Get
Officials
While
American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians.
David E. Sanger
Technology
Sometimes
Dig
Corporations
Suppliers
Because
Koreans
Iranians
North
American
Officials
Suspected
The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the vast majority of these cases are handled correctly: The death is recorded. Government money is no longer sent to that person. But not always.
David Fahrenthold
Death
Government
Money
Year
Enormous
Say
Correctly
About
Cases
Recorded
Vast
Vast Majority
Federal
Longer
Majority
Tracking
Always
Deaths
Handled
Person
Task
American
Die
Officials
Bureaucracy
Sent
Each
Each Year
Million
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
David Harsanyi
Own
Twitter
Mystery
Write
Take
Part
Know
Lines
Celebrities
Officials
After
Elected
Elected Officials
Why
Deepest
What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.
David Ignatius
Strong
Sometimes
Past
States
Seems
More
Comfortable
Dominant
Than
Decades
America
Did
Officials
Frustrate
China
Less
United
United States
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
David Stern
Game
Joy
Pride
Achieve
Nothing
Living
Our
Top
Correct
More
Make
Call
Because
Than
Officials
Human
Want
Happen
Professional
Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Party
Running
Delegates
Leaders
Make
Sure
Exist
Officials
Where
Against
Elected
Elected Officials
Really
Grassroots
Activists
Position
Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.
Derek Bok
Education
Speak
Disagree
Light
Approach
Way
Ensure
High
Seem
Strongly
Economic
Economic Growth
Conceive
Most
Policy
Continue
Officials
Who
Growth
Competitiveness
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
Dick Murphy
You
Power
Remove
Unless
Financing
Wealthy
Some
Never
Over
Officials
Going
Public
Elected
Elected Officials
Interests
Convinced
Elections
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
Douglas Feith
Peace
Though
Drives
Emphasize
Israeli
Officials
Public
Actions
Actually
Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.
Elizabeth Emken
You
Problem
Tried
Constituents
Part
Between
Around
Built
Dialogue
Officials
Interaction
Themselves
Elected
Elected Officials
Avoid
Barriers
At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
Elliott Abrams
Free
Nation
Own
Berlin
Bay
City
Small
Could
Freely
Within
Trade
West
Officials
Elect
Create
Communist
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Government
Class
Women
Old
Doctors
Sympathy
Members
Classes
Composers
Russia
Writers
Taken
Nobility
Also
Well
Government Officials
Officials
Soviet
Soviets
Artists
Place
Which
Former
Professional
Whose
Peasant
Two
Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Good
Practice
Our
Ways
Those
Some
Crossing
Through
Retain
Perhaps
Devoted
Territory
Coming
Mexico
America
Officials
Precisely
Children
Hold
Which
Central
Central America
Who
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
Eric Alterman
Health
Win
Election
Our
Kick
System
Administration
Had
He
Wishes
Most
Until
Years
Provisions
Fix
Officials
After
Which
Noticed
Designed
Two
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