Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely free of scandal: seven city officials, including two black councilmen who are allies of the mayor, have been indicted on federal bribery and kickback charges. Despite the mayor's soaring rhetoric, there were few improvements in Chicago's notoriously inadequate public schools or the city's crime-ridden public housing projects...
...linked Romero's murder to Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist political foe and a former army major long suspected of masterminding the killing. Said the President: "At this moment, I am telling the people and the world that I have completed my promise to uncover this abominable crime...
...dramatic crackdown against insider trading has been haunted by a strange irony: no specific statute outlaws or even defines the crime. Using the broad | antifraud provisions of federal law, prosecutors have been expanding the reach of prohibitions against insider trading on a case-by-case basis. Over the past few years they have won decisions in numerous courts, but none of those precedents have been explicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...bill is way overdue--it's a crime that protection for homosexuals hasn't been provided for," said State Rep. Robert A. Durand (D-Marlborough), who pushed for the bill last spring in the House and is actively lobbying the Senate for support...
...seven years of Reagan gave this liberal more joy than watching the president's second Supreme Court nominee--selected precisely because of his lack of a substantive past--vanish in a puff of smoke. I relished every minute as the president hoisted himself on his own anti-drug, anti-crime petard. Thanks to Reagan's demagoguery, another bitter Senate confrontation battle was avoided...