EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Something to celebrate State lawmakers have passed a bipartisan bond package that benefits all Californians. Cooking the books All of the LAPD's boasting boast 1 v. boast·ed, boast·ing, boasts v.intr. To glorify oneself in speech; talk in a self-admiring way. v.tr. 1. To speak of with excessive pride. 2. about great crime drops seem overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. now that we know the department skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data the numbers by reclassifying some crimes. No consequences The high rate of dismissal reversals among county employees confirms that there's virtually no consequence for incompetence in·com·pe·tence or in·com·pe·ten·cy n. 1. The quality of being incompetent or incapable of performing a function, as the failure of the cardiac valves to close properly. 2. in the public sector. Raising expectations It's only right for the state to demand better schools for all Californians. |
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