Word: rife
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Like the debate over capital punishment itself, the Payne case is rife with emblematic importance, yet it is only tangentially connected with the nation's alarming murder rate. Currently, the death penalty is decreed in only 3% of all murder convictions, and only a small percentage of these lead to actual executions. "The significance of Payne is more societal in terms of what it says about the proper role of the crime victim in the criminal-justice system," argues Richard Samp, a lawyer with the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, which is representing the Zvolanek family. This political symbolism...
...Latin Americans caught trying to cross the border from Mexico declined dramatically in late January. In Laredo and Del Rio, Texas, border arrests were down as much as 40%, compared with the same month a year ago. Arrests in Yuma, Ariz., decreased 30%. Immigration officials say Mexico is rife with rumors that the U.S. government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join the military. Army recruiters contend the aliens attempt to enlist, mistakenly believing...
...Budget Director, is known around the White House as an accomplished comedian. After all, a knack for cutting up goes naturally with the job; last year when Bush asked for the impossible -- a budget that lowered the deficit without raising taxes -- Darman responded with a 15-page essay rife with references to Wonderland, Pac-Man and Cookie Monster. Given the cooked books that were expected of him, humor was Darman's best defense...
...industries reeling under the one-two punch of recession and war, none have been hit as hard as the travel business. Across the U.S. last week, airports were eerily quiet. Rumors of terrorist plots were rife; some companies took the opportunity to cut back on travel in the midst of the recession, knowing that the competition would be following suit. This week, in an unprecedented move, most U.S. department-store fashion directors, magazine fashion editors and Seventh Avenue buyers will stay home from the annual couture collections in Paris. The shutdown of European travel...
...hold off for a while in order to bring the allies along as a sign of weakness. The G.I.s in Saudi Arabia would rather fight now, get it over with and go home than continue to wait in an inhospitable desert. If discontent with Bush's policy ever becomes rife inside the U.S., it could begin with these troops and spread to civilians impatient with the game of feints and threats...