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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legislative machinery, this one is not expected by criminologists to have a stunning effect on crime. Though most Americans support capital punishment (77% in the TIME/CNN poll), * many crime experts challenge its usefulness for anything other than pure retribution. The problem, they argue, is that the fastest growth in violent crime is occurring among teenagers -- from 1986 to 1991, murders committed by teens ages 14 to 17 grew by 124%, while among adults 25 and over, murder actually declined slightly -- and teenagers are least likely to be concerned with the threat of the electric chair. "Many of them face death...
...best of times in the personal-computer market. Prices are in free fall. Options that were once prohibitively expensive are now packaged at rock- bottom prices. The fastest chips and the biggest hard drives are cheap and plentiful. For consumers who have often had to wait years to buy the latest, most powerful machines at affordable prices, the market has entered what seems to be a golden...
...nonbank lenders. "There is plenty of demand for financing from small companies," says Access Capital president Miles Stuchin. "It's just that the banks are turning them down." Stuchin set up a finance company in 1986 that Inc. magazine last year placed in the top 20% of the 500 fastest-growing companies...
...naive to transfer such reasoning to foreign policy. Nations are not individuals. Nations live in a state of nature. There is no higher authority to protect them. If they do not protect themselves, they die. Ignoring one's interests, squandering one's resources in fits of altruism, is the fastest road to national disaster...
...Captain Bill Doyle took home a silver with a 192-foot toss in the hammer throw and freshman Darin Shearer took third place in the 3000-meter steeplechase with the third-fastest Harvard time ever...