Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be offered a variety of public service opportunities. The White House proposes to create up to 1.4 million new jobs and training positions. The jobs will include serving as teacher aides, providing child care, weatherizing homes, controlling rats and insects, cleaning streets and escorting the aged in high-crime areas...
...think it can. I can't believe anybody wants to be poor. I really don't believe people want to make a living at crime. We can't turn everybody into lawyers or doctors or physicists, but we can certainly get people to do all kinds of tasks as long as they are dignified and satisfying...
...Lyndon's showing up in Alice to ask for 200 votes, all those old Johnson hands, from John Connally on down, just scoffed. The idea that a man of Johnson's skills would place himself at the scene of the crime was ridiculous. "He was more devious than that," insisted one friend with relish...
National Passions. The heist was so professional that police suspect the thieves have ties to organized crime and may have little trouble fencing their take -although not at face value. Casinos, race tracks and other businesses that deal in large volumes of change should be able to absorb the coins (provided police informers don't spot them). Moreover, several national passions-ranging from tippling to the weekly tierce horse race-force cafes to keep large amounts of coins on hand. Last year two crooks who had stolen $80,000 in one-franc coins tried to convince police that...
...incident was a new twist in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S.: computer crime. It has grown from nothing 20 years ago to a $300 million annual racket today. With financial transfers increasingly taken over by electronic data-processing (E.D.P.) systems, the prospects for future swindles appear limitless. Says Philadelphia FBI Agent Michael Boyle: "This is the crime of the future...