Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More important, the President's proposals would have virtually no impact on the kinds of crimes that Americans most fear: assault, robbery and rape, as ! well as virtually all murders and most drug offenses. Fighting those crimes is almost exclusively a state and local responsibility. A mere 118 of the 47,700 inmates held in federal penitentiaries have been convicted of murder. More than 83% of federal prisoners are serving time for such offenses as counterfeiting, embezzlement, tax evasion and nonviolent drug offenses...
Administration officials contend that an expansion of federal prisons, as well as recent changes in the law, will ease the burden on hard-pressed state and local officials by making it easier to charge drug offenders under federal statutes. Federal prosecutors are instructed to avoid offering plea bargains in such cases, making a prison term harder to dodge. Says White House aide Roger Porter, who helped design the package: "The people who are committing these crimes are not dumb. They know what the chances are of getting caught and getting sent to prison, and as we increase those odds...
...cents to 75 cents) and a pruning of some expensive-to-acquire subscribers. Advertising revenue, they add, was affected by last year's TV writers' strike (which delayed the networks' fall promotions) and by the elimination of a long-standing practice in which TV Guide traded ad space to local stations in exchange for commercial airtime...
...President proposes constructing more federal lockups, but the real problem is state and local building. -- Congress admits its new ethics rules are discouraging people from taking federal office -- and the "ethics monster" turns on Congress itself. -- A paradox for Western boosterism: Denver voters approve a mammoth modern airport, but Seattle citizens put limits on downtown...
...foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier this month to 8.8% last week, it remains higher than the return on comparable securities abroad...