Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic weather. A few areas may look better off in certain statistics, but none can boast of an affluence quite like Washington's. It is effortless, persisting, secure. True, in the 71% black District of Columbia, poverty persists, along with the core city's reputation for street crime. Even so, black unemployment in D.C. is a third less than the U.S. average...
...strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided by funds from his Bahamian operation, Allen formed an alliance with Producer Ray Stark and proceeded to take control of the small Canadian movie and TV producer called Seven Arts...
Castle is one of Greene's patented Manichaean depressives, those saintly sinners whose jobs (crime, the priest hood, spying) allow the author to compose variations on his favorite themes: the pervasiveness of evil and the saving graces of kindness, love and even disloyalty. For Greene, disloyalty to institutions that threaten his ideals of individualism and humanism is a privilege, if not a right...
When Tongsun Park touches down in Washington this week for his rendezvous with congressional Koreagate probers, he will have few legal problems to fear. Attorney William G. Hundley, a wry, wisecracking former Justice Department crime fighter, has arranged full immunity from prosecution for Park in return for his testimony in criminal proceedings. If Park testifies truthfully before congressional committees, he will return to Korea a free man, largely as the result of Hundley's hard bargaining...
...Punk is a cultural thing. You can't take the music without taking the culture. If you live in a community that's crime and violence oriented, then you're going to appreciate punk a lot more...not because you're a criminal, but because there's nothing to do," he says...