Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jeffrey Howard, a Harvard social psychologist, rejected West's emphasis on external explanations for Black problems. Howard said the failure of government programs, for example, should not be blamed exclusively for problems confronting the Black community, such as a high crime rate, drug abuse, and higher instances of teenage pregnancy...
...what happened to the $96 billion? Federal Reserve officials speculate that some of the money may be salted away in mattresses and piggy banks. Much more has probably seeped into the underground economy, where drug dealers and organized crime bosses, as well as otherwise law-abiding citizens, make cash- only transactions that go unreported to the Internal Revenue Service. Finally, billions of dollars have undoubtedly journeyed overseas, because many foreigners like to hoard American money, especially in countries with unstable currencies...
...Giordano: "If we have to, this court will remain in session day and night until we finish." The trial is expected to take more than a year and cost $100 million. Explained Prosecutor Giuseppe Ajala: "We were obliged to do it this way because such a huge organism of crime could not be chopped up into little pieces...
...suspects, a job made easier by names and addresses the gullible thieves had written at Johnny's request on the checks issued by the shop. The videotape, which can be used in court, was also valuable, showing what Police Chief Arthur Deutsch called "the face of crime...
...decorations. He did, including the Nobel Prize for Peace, and he had once been the leader of the banned Solidarity trade union. The defendant, Lech Walesa, was in court to answer charges that he had slandered members of several regional electoral commissions. His alleged crime: issuing estimates of voter turnout in Poland's parliamentary balloting last October that were lower than government figures...