Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congratulations. Your hard traveling has brought you to a strange and wondrous place: Right now, on a day you are lucky to be alive to see, the U.S. is enjoying its best economic and social health in 25 years. We're living longer, breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime...
Mindful of this prejudice, I've spent a lifetime identifying this or that disturbing factor that others ignore. Now, however, I face a real problem: I can't find any of those factors. Each morning the paper brings such encouraging news about inflation or crime or unemployment that I almost expect to see the headline GOOD PEOPLE REWARDED; EVIL ONES TO SUFFER. The worry monger in me finds no satisfaction in the international pages either. The democracy kudzu spreads relentlessly, and while there are troubles, none compares with the risk of imminent global incineration. Then: the Cuban missile crisis...
...patent fight with competitors in federal court in April, and in a month a judge could issue a ruling preventing CellPro from selling its product to new customers. "This is personal now," said Murdock. "I'm not just a CEO. I'm a patient. It would be a crime against humanity if a business dispute kept us from getting this procedure to other patients...
...Investigation [SPECIAL REPORT, April 28] that we have traditionally relied on to set the example for doing the right thing? These agencies are supposed to give us confidence in their vision and respect for their reputation of being rock solid. But now there are allegations about the FBI crime lab; President Clinton has several unresolved issues, including alleged improper White House visits and political contributions; House Speaker Newt Gingrich has admitted ethical violations. Where are the new leaders who will help restore our lost confidence? FRED STROM Rye Brook...
...materials, FBI chemist Steven Burmeister told jurors that when McVeigh was arrested after the Oklahoma bombing, his clothing carried traces of PETN, an explosive used in bomb detonator cord. It was a dramatic ending to a day that the defense spent in attacking the credibility of the embattled FBI crime lab, including accusations that FBI forensic scientists contaminated key pieces of the Ryder truck used in the bombing. Several of the shards of the truck found near the explosion site are instrumental to the prosecution's case because the FBI has said it found ammonium nitrate crystals...