Word: crime
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...efforts to control their use, marks a distinct change of pace for TIME's Economy and Business section. Says Senior Editor Charles Alexander, who supervised the project: "This story is an unusual one for us because it cuts across so many disciplines. We don't normally focus heavily on crime, legal and civil rights issues or social problems in our columns...
...have sparked a heated debate. Political opponents of the Socialist government denounced the process by which the new channels were created as "completely scandalous." Cultural leaders, meanwhile, warned that the expected influx of foreign-produced shows, many of them from the U.S., amounted to nothing less than "a state crime against culture...
...measure of the inroads drugs have made on the U.S. workplace came last week when the President's Commission on Organized Crime took the extraordinary step of asking all U.S. companies to test their employees for drug use. In an initial report based on a 32-month study, the commission also urged the Government not only to test its own workers but to withhold federal contracts from private firms that refuse to do the same. "Drug trafficking is the most serious organized-crime problem in the world today," said the commission, which argued that the Government and private companies...
...recommendations immediately stirred a fire storm of controversy. Said Representative Peter Rodino, a New Jersey Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee: "Wholesale testing is unwarranted and raises serious civil liberty concerns." Agreed Democratic Representative Charles Schumer of New York: "Trying to stop organized crime's multimillion-dollar drug business by creating a police state in federal office buildings would be virtually ineffective and would create one crime to stop another...
Hankering after a larger share of the New York City chicken market, Frank Perdue found he had little choice but to deal with mobsters. He agreed to supply birds to Dial Poultry, a distributing company owned by sons of Gambino Family Crime Boss Paul Castellano, the Mob chieftain who was gunned down in midtown Manhattan last December. Perdue knew with whom he was dealing. Later he turned to Castellano, unsuccessfully, for assistance in easing labor troubles in Virginia. "They (the Mafia) have long tentacles," the poultry producer testified last September before the President's Commission on Organized Crime. "I figured...