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Though offenders come from every ethnic group and environment, most are nonwhite kids whose resentments are honed and hardened in the slums. Usually they are victims themselves, abused or abandoned by parents who tend to have a history of crime, chronic alcoholism...
...have a new hearing on a car theft. There is an awkward silence after the judge asks, "Well, where is he?" Papers are shuffled, and a probation officer announces: "Judge, he wasn't sent down. He disappeared a few days ago. He's a chronic absconder...
Inflation is raging at an annual rate of about 30%. Nearly 8% of the nation's work force is unemployed. A deep and chronic balance of payments deficit ?caused largely by oil-price hikes and sluggish exports?threatens the long-term solvency of a nation vitally dependent on foreign trade. To make up for a record $4.3 billion budget deficit last year, the government had to draw on reserves (now down to $4.5 billion from a peak of $6.7 billion in 1973) and borrow heavily abroad...
...chronic outbursts against doctors, Mark Twain once complained that the "insane," monopolistic American medical system was "an infamous thing, a crime against a free man's right to choose his own assassin." Twain's fulmination is now being echoed by contemporary opponents of the medical establishment. Championing Laetrile, their painless apricot-pit panacea, they are insisting that Americans should be allowed a "freedom of choice" to pick their own cancer therapy...
...question of who maimed New York City has become Newfield's obsession. He is concerned not only with immediate injury-the 30-month-long fiscal crisis-but with chronic economic and social ailments. The Abuse of Power is his answer. Though written with Paul Du Brul, a city planner, the book's thesis is pure Newfield: the city was not merely short-shrifted by federal policy, let down by feckless mayors and leeched by the unions. The case was, and remains, an exercise in gang rape with enough perpetrators to fill a penitentiary...