Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million voters, many of them transplants from the Southern states, who register 3 to 2 Democratic but voted heavily for Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Says Bill Lacy, head of Bush's California campaign: "The people in the Central Valley can be appealed to like Southern conservatives, on crime, the death penalty, prison furloughs, gun control." Bush will also stress Dukakis' endorsement of a 1985 grape boycott called by United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez, a stand popular with Latino farmhands, who mostly do not vote, but anathema to farm owners and their suppliers...
There was a time when Mafia and Godfather were alien words in the official Soviet vocabulary, and organized crime was considered an inevitable by-product of decadent capitalism. No longer. Inspired by Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for greater honesty and openness, criminal investigators have begun unraveling a web of crime and corruption, dating back to the Brezhnev years, that stretched from the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan to the highest levels of government in Moscow...
...Scottish maternity ward, there is no question. It is St. Andrews. According to the Morrises (Old and Young Tom), Bobby Jones and Henry Cotton, a serious golfer cannot be confirmed without going home to the broom and bracken of the Old Course. Furthermore, it is considered a crime against nature to trace a route any less circuitous than by way of Turnberry, Troon, Prestwick and Muirfield...
...court in Palermo, Sicily, jailed 338 mafiosi in the biggest trial of its kind in Italian history. Last month, however, eight Sicilian magistrates who have been leading the crackdown requested transfers; they charged that through "omissions and inertia" the government was retreating from the war against organized crime. Among the frustrated judges was Giovanni Falcone, 49, the celebrated Mafia-buster who worked on the Palermo case, as well as the Pizza Connection trial in New York City. Said Minister of Justice Giuliano Vassalli: "The Mafia can hardly fail to exploit this disagreeable episode...
...comic book being distributed at the convention shows Dukakis dressed in a dress, high heels and a string of pearls. The comic book lambastes Dukakis for honoring a Salem, Mass. witch and for his stances on crime and social issues...