Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last summer, excessive bureaucracy, credit difficulties, erratic cash flow, transport and communications bottlenecks were prevalent. Once again, the expectations of the poor and middle class were frustrated. Rent for a modest two-room apartment in Tehran rose to $1,000 a month. For luxury villas in the northern part of the city, a monthly rent of $5,000 was not considered extravagant. There was a year's wait for a $6,000 Iranian-manufactured automobile; imported Mercedes 280s sold...
...been further complicated by the society's spasms of conscience. These arise from the larger unsolved questions of social justice in the U.S., principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others to be the victims of criminals, and who, in fact, are more likely to favor the death penalty...
...Gulf County, Fla., courtroom of Judge David Taunton these past four years, the rule of law has been compassion for the poor. When an appliance company tried to repossess a washing machine from a black man with no job, a wooden leg and seven children, Judge Taunton reached into his pocket and paid the defendant's $97 overdue bill himself. Without being subpoenaed, he appeared as a character witness for a man convicted of drunken driving who was trying to get his license back so he could take his wife to the hospital for cancer treatments. To spare...
...judge's compassion verged on bias, agreed the Florida Supreme Court last March, but it let Taunton off with a reprimand, calling his motives "wholesome and unselfish." Taunton is not a lawyer. A former high school principal and Methodist lay minister, he defends his leniency to the poor by quoting the Bible: "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." He also admits to a "tendency to give the poor party the benefit of the doubt." But Taunton declares that playing good shepherd to indigent defendants...
Only three months later the judge was hauled before the Judicial Qualifications Commission. In addition to the charge of bending the law to favor the poor, Taunton was accused of using his public office to muckrake and of spending public funds ($11.83) to make his investigations. "Judge Taunton is a right nice fella," John Wigginton, general counsel to the commission, told the St. Petersburg Times. "It's just that he's got what seems to be a deep-seated fetish about poor people. We feel he ought to be doing something else for a living-like welfare work...