Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody ever said that sports should be above the law; cheating, in fact, has become so rampant that innocence itself would be a crime. When he drugged his way to a gold at the Olympics, Ben Johnson made a mockery not only of the Games' utopian ideals, and of the nation he was representing, but also of all the competitors who were relying only on their natural talents. Yet all of Boggs' cheating, by comparison, was off the field. No one ever accused him of being a dirty player. Nor has anyone shown that his indiscretions affected his performance...
...this affair is a private affair, whose sorry consequences need have reached only the parties involved. Those who challenged his mistress's honor were not necessarily claiming that she was selling herself, only that she was selling her story. Yet we, in buying it, are surely accessories to the crime. For we are not, after all, accusing Boggs of anything extraordinary (every office has its adulterers); rather, we are crushed to find him ordinary. And it is not so much that the national pastime has been scarred by scandal as that scandal sometimes seems to be the national pastime...
...sound of prison doors clanging shut has provided the background music for the transition from one Teamster president to the next. From Dave Beck in 1958 to Jackie Presser in 1986, four of the past six Teamster chiefs have been accused or convicted of felonies, often involving organized crime...
...Gingrich told a group of young Republicans that "one of the great problems we have in the Republican party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty." Last year, he remarked that crime and drugs are issues with which Republicans can "divide America...
...surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority of men with the XYY pattern -- an estimated 96% -- lead relatively normal lives. But before the matter was put to rest, a variety of measures were proposed to protect society from the perceived threat. One group of scientists urged massive...