Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CRIME WITH which Monson has been charged is to "willfully omit, without lawful excuse" necessary medical care for her child. Under the provisions of this 1926 law, fetuses are considered persons. The statute has been used primarily to force husbands to furnish child support for families they have deserted; the fetus has been considered a child in order to make the father responsible...
...digitalis, which had a bad effect on him. I told them that giving him that medication was the only thing they did that was not premeditated, that they had simply lost their heads out of fear of the KGB. Everything else they were doing to Sakharov was a crime...
When to speak of trees is almost a crime...
...Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...
...senseless a definition could prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling...