Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor never sat down or shut up. While she got away with answering a measly eight questions from reporters, Rudy was taking eight a minute at his five press conferences in 16 hours. As she was visiting farmers and suburban moms, he galloped to Queens to play Mr. Crime Fighter, surrounded by New York's finest as he swore in a new class at the police academy...
...doesn't much care. "It would be nice," he says of being liked, "but it's better to do the right thing, prove the city is manageable, so no one can ever say it isn't again." He's rightly criticized for tolerating police excesses, but with crime down and jobs up, Wall Street gushing and Times Square as clean as Fantasyland, he gets away with it. Because of the Catch-22 of First Ladies, Hillary doesn't have much of a record to tout. She can't take credit for exercising the power she's not supposed to have...
...been avoided.? SabreTech officials took exception to the criminal actions. They denied any wrongdoing and vowed a vigorous defense. ?We are not going to stand idly by and be made a criminal scapegoat for this tragedy,? said an attorney for the company. ?This was a horrific accident, not a crime...
...Crime is down, school scores are up and there is no baseball strike. We're no longer bombing the Serbs to make them quit killing the Kosovars, our first ever "humanitarian war." Latrell Sprewell has made a comeback, and no one in boxing has bitten anyone else's ear off lately. Henry Kissinger was not named Humanitarian of the Year this year. True, the President was caught diddling an intern at the White House, but all that happened was it cost Newt Gingrich his job. You think any other country could come up with a scenario like that? Could Canada...
...investments in environmental protection, community development and marketing will matter little if soaring crime is not brought under control. Even with a recently announced crackdown, travelers are still a good deal safer in the wide-open spaces than in South African cities, where muggings and more violent crimes are rarely out of the news. Despite plans to clean up Johannesburg and revive its commercial heart, the country's northern gateway remains economically distressed. The Carlton, the city's main hotel, closed down last year. To avoid the dangers of the former gold-mining center, many visitors begin their stay instead...