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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Underclass: Breaking the Cycle | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Guide to Discomfort Stations | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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