Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insensitivity to the concerns of the white citizens of East Yonkers, while shouting to the audience, "I am tired of being called an apologist for racism." Reciting a standard litany of complaints to rationalize his opposition to the court's actions, Glazer called upon the demons of drugs, crime and plummeting real estate values...
Milken's legacy will take years to come fully into focus. "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," Balzac once said. "Great fortunes are made by solving problems" is the way Milken has preferred to see it. The Government's view should be known in a few weeks. The true value of junk bonds will take longer to determine...
...style contrasted sharply with his father's calls for sacrifice during the gulf war. In the conspiratorial world of Baghdad politics, it was impossible to know all the reasons for Odai's predicament. But the President probably decided he would risk an outcry if he ignored such a blatant crime...
...Parker's acute reimagining of a time and place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by the local lawmen that any crime was committed at all; the steadily mounting campaign of violence intended to terrorize everyone into complicity in this lie -- all of this is handled with a deft and compulsive power...
...second half of the prosecutor's case relies on interpretation of existing laws. Even if Morris is charged with any crime and found guilty, the extent of his punishment is problematic. "Whether or not the defendent is guilty is one thing, whether he should be punished for something he did not see...that's another question," Frusciante said...