Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of actual victims has risen disastrously, but the social damage done by crime, the intangible injuries to confidence and hope and citizens' sense of justice, is incalculably higher. As Chief Justice Warren Burger says, crime has created "a reign of terror in American cities." In that sense, the victims and their sufferings receive preposterously little consideration in comparison with those who assault. Somehow the criminal must be persuaded that society despises crime -surely not the impression that the criminal justice system now gives. Tough gun laws are essential. The judicial process should be speeded up. Determinate sentencing...
...Chief Justice blasts the "reign of terror" in our cities
...combat the "reign of terror in American cities," the nation's top judge called for greater stress on the "deterrent effect" of "swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty, and-at some point-finality of judgment." He suggested hiring more prosecutors, defenders and judges so that a defendant could be tried within a few weeks of arrest, rather than months, and get his appeal heard within eight weeks. One round of direct appeals per defendant, he argued, should be enough...
...stretch of perpetually frozen soil that extends like an icy finger from Western Siberia about 400 miles toward the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures fall to -60° C during the nine-month-long winter, and the only inhabitants are a few Russians and Mongolian reindeer herders. During Stalin's reign of terror, the Soviet Gulag penetrated the region. Beneath tundra and scrub forests lie the world's largest untapped, proven reserves of natural gas, estimated to total 26 trillion cubic meters...
...That reign is nearly over. Despite the cushion of the magazine's success, a certain nervousness hovers in the air in this very inbred, cloistered place. Several years ago, the staff was unsettled by reports that Shawn wanted to turn over some authority to a young man more admired by Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker...