Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part they are black and live in the decayed hearts of major cities. But the Underclass is defined less by income than by behavior. Members are prisoners of a ghetto pathology, the denizens of a self- perpetuating culture marked by teenage pregnancy, fatherless households, chronic unemployment, crime, drug use and long-term dependence on welfare...
Bush campaigned in the swing states of Ohio and Missouri, where he referred to the attack that furlough escapee Willie Horton committed on a Maryland couple last year. He criticized Dukakis for having "an astounding lack of sensitivity for crime victims...
...part, the vice president used great detail to describe the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree in Maryland last year several months after being released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough...
...Michael Dukakis is not going to play politics with the victims of crime. He's said it was a tragedy and the law has been changed...
...elegant subway system are also reduced to toe-tapping: "There are no public rest rooms, and there haven't been as long as I've been here," an employee declares indignantly, when a patron begins to beg. A Metro spokesman avers that rest rooms would be an invitation to "crime, vandalism and all kinds of other things you wouldn't want to discuss in mixed company...