Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Given the level of public outrage, how would you deal with those who do commit serious crimes...
...around 1963 and peaked in the late 1970s. The increase in crime from 1963 to 1980 was enormous -- and it occurred in a period of general prosperity. Part of the explanation is that the population got younger, because of the baby boom -- and younger men are more likely to commit crime than older ones...
...young public responded to the suicide with surprise and disbelief. The death of the youthful Deputy White House Counsel touched us, but alienated our sensibilities. No one could guess what motivated Foster to commit an act found so despicable...
...other legislators with whom Clinton had been cutting deals all week, Williams asked for no specific trade-off in return for his vote. "Pat," Clinton finally pleaded, "I can't pass this without your vote, and my presidency depends on getting this thing through." But Williams refused to commit. A liberal from a conservative state, he opposed some of the bill's spending cuts as well as the gasoline tax. So he went to the floor weighted with ambivalence, hoping to vote no but fearing to be the agent of paralysis...
Several things were illuminated by firelight last week: that Gallardo was not welcome; that someone would commit a new crime to stress that; and that it is hard to write good law accommodating the popular belief that once a sexual predator, always a sexual predator...