Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident seemed certain to escalate the confrontation in the gulf between the U.S. and Iran. Declared Radio Tehran: "America's crime today in downing an Iranian Airbus is . . . new evidence of American crimes and mischiefs, crimes which expose America's nature more than ever before...
Surrogate parenthood has often been denounced as baby selling, and five states have declared surrogate contracts unenforceable. But only in Michigan is surrogacy deemed a crime. Under a law signed by Governor James Blanchard last week, people entering into a surrogate contract for pay, and spouses who condone such arrangements, can be fined $10,000 and jailed for a year. Lawyers and other brokers who promote surrogacy contracts are branded felons; they can be fined $50,000 and imprisoned for five years. Surrogate arrangements involving no fee remain legal. Surrogacy Lawyer Noel Keane and the American Civil Liberties Union...
...until 9 p.m. in the rice fields, receiving little or no wages and barely enough food for subsistence. His education was put on hold, and he was forced to concentrate on survival--his classmates in the city, members of the Red Guard, had labeled him a "reactionary," the gravest crime in Mao's China...
Those who oppose Dukakis generally do so because they feel he is too liberal. "I like somebody with a more blood-and-guts stand against crime and drugs," says a man at the Ochoco feed store. Eating pancakes at Barr's Cafe, Bob Clevenger, 67, a retired minister, says his main problem with Dukakis is credibility. "I don't like Bush, but I won't vote for Dukakis because he's not shooting honest. He's making claims for things in Massachusetts he didn...
...Some of the focus should be on specific urban problems," says Bogg, citing Black-on-Black crime as one of two major issues facing many urban communities. "The other issue is growth--how growth in surrounding areas detracts from growth within urban centers...