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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another entrant to the list is Running Scared with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. The crime-fighting duo takes on one gangster, who (you guessed it) is a Latin American drug dealer longing to control the Chicago drug supply...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bad Guys, Good Guys | 6/7/1988 | See Source »

Drug leaders, gang leaders, crime leaders, bad guys. Cocaine and a drug lord--must be a Latin American. A criminal plus a heavy accent--must be another...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bad Guys, Good Guys | 6/7/1988 | See Source »

Then there's Paul Newman's classic Fort Apache, the Bronx. Newman, the aging cop, had to ward off a slew of crime-hungry Puerto Ricans. Commit crimes--that's what Latin Americans like to do, the audience must conclude...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bad Guys, Good Guys | 6/7/1988 | See Source »

...crime to which Debra Ann Forster, 18, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty last week: leaving her two sons, ages six months and 18 months, alone in a sweltering apartment for nearly three days. The highly unusual sentence handed down by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Lindsay Ellis Budzyn: Forster must use birth control for the rest of her childbearing years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Inconceivable Sentence | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Over the past two decades, too many big-city public schools have degenerated into jungles of incompetence, failed objectives, even violent crime. A million U.S. high schoolers drop out annually, joining a swelling underclass of unemployables. In Los Angeles, only 229 youngsters of 1,918 at one typical school can read up to grade level. In New York City, classroom thugs committed 1,606 assaults on school grounds last year. A showcase failure among the wreckage has been Jersey City, an 86% minority system where only 25.9% of ninth-graders can pass standard proficiency exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When Schools Become Jungles | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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