Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...first problem faced by the Gluecks after setting up this predictive table was to encourage its application to juvenile delinquents with backgrounds differing from those who made up the original group. If offenders had the same "cluster of factors" as were found among the SPT delinquents, the test would be validated. The process was then to be reversed--the test applied to six year olds to see if predictions of delinquency actually came true...
...latter proposal, of course, is finding increasing favor across the nation, and a frightening cluster of special interest groups is buying thousands of column inches in magazines and newspapers in order to fight it. Under the headline, "Government Always Shrinks a Dollar," Republic Steel periodically tells readers that "whenever the government finances something for you, you pay for it--through taxes--with your own dollar that has inevitably been shrunk...
...omitted previous hints that this might mean a tax cut. Said he: "We should be starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some of these great obligations, and I think we should." ¶ Pinned an oakleaf cluster, in lieu of a third Distinguished Service Medal, on the chest of retiring General Maxwell D. Taylor. Cracked Ike, as he searched for a place to pin the last award on the much decorated tunic of his wartime comrade: "There's not much room left, is there?" ¶ Adroitly...
When Rome was little more than a cluster of hill villages and the Forum a swampy marketplace, the proud and pleasure-loving Etruscans ruled Italy from the Tiber to the Po. In the end, the Roman legions crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...