Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After its leaders were found guilty of racketeering, murder threats and extortion four years ago, Local 560 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters earned a dubious distinction: it became the first union local to be taken over by the Federal Government. Last week the local, based in Union City, N.J., held its first open and contested elections in more than 20 years...
Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping came to power, instituting the rule of law has been a critical element in the drive to modernize China. The government has issued a plethora of statutes covering everything from murder to trademark infringement. The legal profession has finally regained its status. Indeed, the number of Chinese lawyers has soared from a scant 2,000 in 1980 to 25,000 today, and some 70 legal publications are in circulation...
...AMERICAN JOURNEY. Based on a true case of a family's 25-year fight against a cover-up of a black man's murder, this play, now at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, rocked Milwaukee, where...
...sheet-music salesman reels through the Depression with murder on his mind, adultery on his conscience and a song in his heart. A young man walks into an English home to burgle a loveless couple and rape their brain-damaged daughter. An American woman, troubled by fantasies of her lost child, walks out on her philandering oaf of a husband, whom she may have stabbed to death. An aging British novelist pilfers the life of his beautiful niece for the plot of his new book. Another novelist, strapped to a hospital bed with a grotesquely disfiguring skin disease, plots revenge...
...also appealed to the Israeli people. "Come," he said, "let us make the peace of the bold, far from the arrogance of power and the weapons of destruction, far from the occupation and oppression and humiliation and murder and torture...