Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been turning ancient trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes of buzz saws that have been felling the trees would have to stop. Loggers warn that unemployment would follow. Sad, but not as ineffably sad or final as extinction...
That Mack had a criminal record was no secret. Even so, there was horror at the viciousness and randomness of his crime as it was recounted by the victim, Pamela Small, the prosecutor and the surgeons who pieced her back together. Mack was managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit...
...family's fortune (and of the New York Central Railroad), was a whiskey-swilling, street-fighting parvenu who bullied his wife and children, cheated the public and gave away pittances from the $100 million he amassed. Auchincloss notes, a bit sorrowfully, that Vanderbilt and his colleagues in stiff-collar crime like Jay Gould would not find themselves out of place on Drexel Burnham Lambert's Wall Street. Still, the author can find it in his heart to suggest that the commodore's coarseness may have been caused by social insecurity...
...G.O.P. The high symbolic stakes made for a vituperative campaign. Thomas' supporters spread a false rumor that his Democratic opponent, State Senator John Vinich, had filed a falsified report about an automobile accident. Vinich may have blown the race with exaggerated ads accusing the Republican of being soft on crime...
...York City another awful crime. A 28-year-old jogger was attacked in Central Park by a gang of teens from nearby Harlem. Police say the boys hunted her down, beat and raped her savagely and left her for dead. At week's end she remained in a coma...