Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when Massachusetts is struggling desperately to find revenue sources, state Rep. William Galvin (D-Boston) has succeeded in locating as much as $50 million that would come not from new taxes or reductions in current programs, but largely from the coffers of organized crime...
...some sports purists against any association between professional athletics and gambling. Galvin's plan deserves to be implemented in Massachusetts. Not only will it offer the state additional income with no pain attached, but it also will take a sizeable bite out of the illegal profits garnered by organized crime through gambling operations...
...abortion, he would not lobby the legislature for them. Courter, mindful that New Jersey is one of only twelve states that % permit Medicaid funding of almost any abortion, hopes to keep the race focused on other subjects. Says he: "My priorities are auto insurance and environmental issues and crime." But the issue he is trying to duck may bite him anyway. The National Abortion Rights Action League, scenting a favorable political test, vows to pump as much as $500,000 into campaign ads to keep the spotlight squarely on abortion. Says N.A.R.A.L. executive director Kate Michelman: "The New Jersey gubernatorial...
...that took the great director to task for his portrayal of blacks in the Old South. He went on to win a student director's Academy Award for his thesis, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, about a Brooklyn barber who is torn between legitimacy and petty crime. After graduation, he began work on a drama about a young black bicycle messenger but was forced to abort the project when financing fell apart. Though he says it was the most painful period in his career, the resilient director turned around and started working on another script. Using some...
Declaring that he was "viscerally" against the court's decision, the President called for a constitutional amendment to carve an unprecedented exception in the Bill of Rights and allow states to make flag burning a crime. Bush delivered his announcement while standing with Republican congressional leaders in front of the Iwo Jima memorial at a hurriedly arranged photo opportunity near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. "The flag is too sacred to be abused," he said. "If it is not defended, it is defamed...