Word: crimeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Michigan's attorney general has ruled that Geralds' crime does not constitute a "breach of the public trust," as defined in the state's constitution. He is therefore not liable to automatic dismissal. The ruling means that Geralds' fellow legislators must take personal responsibility for his expulsion by a two-thirds majority of the 109-member house. It is a task that they−or at least his 67 fellow Democrats−approach with great reluctance. Says House Speaker Bobby Crim: "There is definitely sympathy for a man who has a family and where there...
...order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself is moving toward an acceptance of the principles, or lack of them, that sustain crime...
...blamed for a crime...
Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
...feel more and more that inflationary federal economic policies are a crime against taxpayers, robbing us of our earnings, our buying power, our investment opportunities and our standard of living. We consider pickpocketing illegal; can inflationary Government actions be any less culpable...