Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the very real problems our country faces, this made-for-TV campaign seems almost criminal. But for every crime, there must be a perpetrator. After the fact, it has become fashionable to blame Vice President George Bush for using dirty tactics, or Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for being too weak in responding...
...Nixon's own faith in a silent majority. Nixon won on a "law-and-order" platform, and George Bush did the same. The Willie Horton case, brought to you courtesy of Roger Ailes, did matter. Fully three times as many Americans said they voted based on fears of crime than anxiety over relations between the superpowers...
Pranks such as Morris' are far from being clear-cut cases for legal interpretation. They unwittingly force the authorities into a morass of confusing arguments over how to define computer crime, how to interpret the role of an intruder's intent, how to address the vulnerability of the still relatively young computer industry and how to enforce existing laws...
...Browns lost, of course. The final score: 30-7. Better this way, I suppose, than to lose on a length-of-the-field, overtime comeback, a feat the Broncos performed in the 1986 AFC championship game; or to lose on a fumble inside the five-yd. line, a crime the Browns committed against Denver in last year's league championship...
...interest in confronting the largely abstract problems, from environmental hazards to the trade deficit, that could threaten America's well-being in the 1990s. When the national mood is I'm-all-right-Jack complacency, it is unrealistic to expect political leaders to play Cassandra. Even public concerns, like crime and drugs, that consistently ranked high in national polls contributed to this air of unreality. Crime has always been a local problem largely beyond a President's purview, while drug usage remains so embedded in cultural attitudes that it virtually defies political remedies...