Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
...pornography and violence. The report contradicts a more extensive 1970 study that disputed that link, and the American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the latest findings as pro- censorship. Dissenting Commissioner Judith Becker contends that "social science literature does not show that exposure to porn causes a person to commit sexual crimes." She and Panel Member Ellen Levine, editor of Woman's Day magazine, plan to file a written dissent sometime this week. A national dialogue on pornography, says Levine, is important and necessary...
...very wise man once wrote that what many people commit to paper is not truly committed to their hearts. The result is a double standard--saying one thing and doing another. Unfortunately, I have recently had the displeasure of experiencing the marked difference between proclamation and reality...
...Kerch and needs to be convinced by Billy that truth, justice, revenge and the American way can triumph over the odds. The good-ole-boy Sheriff (Paul Winfield) who respected Billy's Dad and hence is willing to look the other way when Billy and pal Eddie commit a string of crimes ranging from destruction of private property to grand theft to manslaughter in order to get their man, rounds out the posse...
...long ago, an outraged and brutalized public insisted that criminals serve longer sentences for the crimes they commit. But soon, as one might expect, prisons simply ran out of space. In Concord Prison, one of Massachusett's medium security correctional facilities, six-by-ten-foot cells that were designed to hold one inmate now have two sleeping in bunk beds. Rooms that were meant to be recreational areas or infirmaries now house 20 to 30 prisoners. Each week, the number grows...