Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much force or power as other movies of its genre. The grimy teenage prostitutes are sad and pathetic, and the photography of Kings' Cross at night artistically blends darkness, sharp bright lights and soft tawdry neon colors, but the movie is missing the grittiness of Taxi Driver or harsher gangster films...
...REVIEW OF Crime and Human Nature, "The Mugger and His Genes," reduces the arguments of the book to a heavy-handed call for harsher criminal penalties. But by ascribing to their book an unintended ideological content, he distorts the attempts of Wilson and Herrnstein to provide an objective criminology. Their theory sees criminal actions as results of rational judgment, and, most controversially, argues that factors such as low intelligence, sex, body structure, the reaction-time of one's autonomic nervous system, and inheritable psychotic or aggressive tendencies tend to correlate with criminality...
Better boxes, harsher punishments, and more police won't prevent future Tylenol poisonings--or muggings, murders, and rapes, for that matter. A renaissance of the small community in America will...
...while the Eliot House resident found the Cambridge weather harsher than he was accustomed to, he found the training regime lighter. Back Down Under, Ford's daily practice consisted of swimming 18,000 to 20,000 meters in a 50-meter pool...
Joseph S. Nye, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, called the report "pretty fair," saying those calling for harsher judgement would have "missed the point...