Word: crimed
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...fastest growing. There are five million Muslim Americans, with one million being converts to Islam. As individuals, we are contributing members of this society, and our hope is to become more involved in the issues which confront all of us: poverty, abuse, break-up of families and communities, prejudice, crime, and the lack of goodwill, respect, and trust between people...
AMERICAN cities are among the most racially segregated in the world. The number of Black neighborhoods suffering from extreme poverty has grown steadily for the past 20 years. These ghettos have terrible schools, few job opportunities and high crime rates. Although ghetto residents comprise a small percentage of the nation's poor, they account for approximately half of federal welfare expenditures...
Associate independent counsel John W. Keker said North's lies to congressional committees and to the attorney general amount to "a crime that goes to the sold of our self-government...
...need for secrecy is no excuse for lying to Congress," Keker told the jury. "Lying to Congress is a crime...
Billy succeeds because he perceives the moral code that motivates the gang. The toughs, Bathgate notes, operate under a "pure inverted premise" of crime as a lifestyle, under which conventional morality still lurks. And although Billy does not accept this philosophy, "it was the premise I had to work...