Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life sentence in May for shooting to death his wife of 51 years, Emily, 73. Gilbert, a retired electrical engineer, has insisted that his wife, who suffered from Alzheimer's and a painful, degenerative bone disease, wished to die. Said he: "I don't feel like I committed a crime at all. Justice is on my side, but the law is on somebody else...
...blame on consumers' widespread resistance to new technology, especially when it involves changing the way their money is handled. Banks point out, for example, that two-thirds of their customers still shun the practical and convenient automatic teller machines. Then, too, many potential home bankers are apprehensive about computer crime, fearing that some ingenious 14-year-old will electronically make off with their life savings. Janet Pruitt, vice president for electronic banking products at Shawmut Corp. of Boston, cites another drawback: "A PC sitting at your home won't be able to withdraw cash or make deposits." For these transactions...
...Despite crime, crowds, expensive real estate, and awful swings in temperature, native New Yorkers say they'll never leave the Big Apple, often claiming that there's no other city where you can get a pastrami sandwich...
...from Central and South America, addiction among Hispanic Americans, according to drug-enforcement agencies, appears to be less common than in black ghettos and indeed in many poor and middle-class Anglo districts. Youth gangs are a problem in some areas, but police generally report that barrio crime rates at worst are no higher than in poor black and white areas. Illegal immigrants in particular seem to be less the perpetrators than the victims of crimes, which they often are reluctant to report for fear of being deported. Says Police Chief John Swan of Beaumont, Texas, with no conscious irony...
...welfare (the best estimate is that less than 20% do), and 54% think they add to the crime problem. Yet 58% feel that immigrants are basically good, honest people, and 67% think they are productive citizens once they become established. One out of every two knows someone who came to the U.S. in the past few years; of them, a majority says this knowledge has changed their views for the better...