Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude toward criminal justice. The deadening boredom and persistent threat of assault that accompany prison life are transforming nonviolent offenders into violent ones. Further, the ultimate costs to society are ominous, both in dollars expended to build and maintain the prisons and in the rising number of victims of repeat offenders. Surely a system can be designed that will select criminals who are worthy of alternative forms of punishment, like restitution or community service, and will still incarcerate those who have a history of violence or repeated criminality. Such a reform would inject a measure of reason into an area...
After sitting out his team's humiliating 62 8 defeat to North Carolina last week. Walker has mended and is scheduled to play in today's match-up with Harvard at Michie Stadium However, it remains to be seen whether he can repeat last year's success against a Crimson defense that kept UMass All-American Garry Pearson under control and out of the endzono last Saturday...
...Seymour Society, hoping to educate Black area communities, will repeat several "teach-ins" that it held this summer in local churches...
...people killed during the past 10 years in a drunk driving accident. A drunk driver careened off the road and crushed him as he stood with his family on the lawn of a restaurant. But since the new laws weren't in effect, the man--a repeat offender--received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence and is now eligible for parole after serving only two years. His three drunk passengers walked away from the accident scot-free...
...like to put some distance between the reasons for his hiatus and those of his Pulitzer-prizewinning colleague Jeff MacNelly, 34, who gave up his editorial-page turf in 1981, only to return earlier this year. "This is simply a lull in the action," says Trudeau. "It is not, repeat, not, a mid-life crisis...