Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much money is involved that it seems to nourish corruption. There are adjusters who take bribes to settle cases, plaintiffs who file inflated claims, witnesses who remember the unrememberable, doctors who commit perjury, and lawyers who squander their talents working for contingent fees (30% of what they win for their clients), which now provide roughly one-third of the U.S. bar's total income...
...American kid has left to call his own. In other areas he can chart his performance by comparison with that of the rest of the nation, thereby diminishing, to some degree, the sense of the unique and the special. With this final invasion of his privacy you commit the ultimate putdown. May your computers clog...
...Isolated Charges. There are a number of obvious and not so obvious openings to the prosecutor. To begin with, he need only prove that the defendants knowingly agreed to commit a crime. In some states, he needs to prove nothing else. In others, and under federal law, he must prove that afterward at least one overt act in the direction of the crime was committed by at least one conspirator...
...jailed for political reasons since the military seized power eight months ago would be freed. Indeed, some 100 prisoners were forthwith released, including the most celebrated one of all, Andreas Papandreou, 48, the son of the former Premier. Andreas, who had been scheduled to stand trial for conspiracy to commit treason, got out of jail in time to join his American wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought to depose the King and establish a neutralist socialist regime, were also released...
...have fun with you tonight." She was later told that "money talks, Wipe Lady," and bought her way out of trouble with cigarettes and candy. But she could do nothing to help a woman in the next cell who was so tormented by her roommates that she tried to commit suicide by putting her head in the toilet and flushing it. After seven days of disgust, Mrs. Macdonald agreed to allow the bank appraisal so that she could...