Word: crimeeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unwise to have such demonstrations because they do not have sufficient, if any, positive consequences to make up for their negative impact. These students are causing traffic breakdowns and social instability; they are responsible, indirectly, for the rise in crime rate in these cities," Li explains. "If public transportation breaks down as a result of the protesters' actions, people cannot go to work; they cannot go home; mothers cannot nurse their children. It disrupts society...
...CRIME STORY (NBC). The two-hour premiere episode was a fierce and stylish update of The Untouchables. Succeeding shows have lost some originality and flair, but this latest series by Producer Michael Mann (Miami Vice) still makes most other cop shows look like wimps...
...Upon hearing the verdict, De Lorean declared, "Praise God!" Newton was also in a thankful mood after a federal jury in Las Vegas found NBC guilty of defaming him on news programs and awarded him $19.2 million in damages. Broadcasts in 1980 and 1981 linked the entertainer to organized-crime figures. NBC indicated that it would appeal the verdict. Said Newton to all his fans: "I just want to take this very rare and wonderful moment in my life from me and mine to wish you a very merry Christmas...
...Detroit Mayor Coleman Young reluctantly signed a gun ordinance that imposes a minimum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. Young, who has beefed up Detroit's police force over the past 18 months and helped organize community action against crime, described the ordinance as "little more than a fig leaf covering . . . a very complex and very serious problem...
...cared, who killed Roger Ackroyd. Nowadays, Christie's kind of puzzle, based on clues larded into the text, has largely given way to a more novelistic brand of mystery, in which the solution may not matter that much to either the writer or the reader. The motive for a crime is more likely to be psychological than economic, and therefore the identity of the perpetrator is likely to loom up long before the last page. The detective has become an amiably flawed working stiff rather than a thinking machine. The final chapter is often devoted to the start...