Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed their granddaughter to visit the square. "I fear that a single incident could set off a mass panic," says Liu. Liu also concedes that this innocent movement could deteriorate into a government backlash that might not carry the widespread vindictiveness of the Cultural Revolution but that nonetheless would result in a shake...
...Midwest regional inspector, that their boss had released confidential tax data to a mob-linked company in exchange for illegal gifts such as theater tickets and expensive dinners. One year later, their charges ignored, the whistle-blowers sought help from IRS officials in Washington. As a result, Santella received a twelve-day suspension without pay -- whereupon a group of senior IRS officials chipped in to reimburse...
...problem is that the result of a negotiation might be different. We could be railroaded into something we don't want to do, which is to wipe out all nuclear weapons in Europe, the so-called third zero...
...Department estimates, by the time the cells Bush wants to build are ready, the federal convict population will have grown to 84,000, which is 17,000 more than the expanded system is designed to accommodate. Study after study has shown that only a fraction of all reported crimes result in arrest, and only a fraction of those people arrested are sent to prison. During the past three decades, there have never been more than six imprisonments for every 100 reported crimes. Even doubling the current prison population, which would cost more than $43 billion, would leave the chance...
...drug war as an example of the hopelessness of curing crime by locking up an ever larger number of criminals. In September, New York City unleashed a tactical narcotics team to make | undercover drug buys, allowing police to slap dealers with felony charges for selling narcotics. The result: a 30% upswing in drug arrests. And the ripple effect: severe overcrowding at the city's squalid holding pen on Rikers Island. Prisoners often sleep on the floor in receiving areas where 90 men may share a single toilet...