Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of one such argument-made in a rare case that did not involve the L.D.F.-the death sentence was declared unconstitutional when only a jury could impose it; the Supreme Court concluded that this practice meant defendants might waive their right to a jury to avoid the risk of death. The court also threw out death sentences when potential jurors in the case had been excluded if they had even slight reservations about capital punishment...
...criminology's few laws. Any member of society who starts to take an increasing role in the economic and social life of that society will be more exposed to crime and will have more opportunities and therefore will become more vulnerable and more prone to criminal risk." Some female infractions that are on the increase: shoplifting, political terrorism and drug-induced crimes...
...year ran 5.4% higher than the 1972 rate. Caught flat-footed by this surge, neither U.S. purchasers nor Canadian suppliers see any quick solution. New paper mills are costly ($50 million to $100 million each) and take two to four years to build; many Canadian mills are reluctant to risk such huge investments on the relatively low profit margins (5% this year) earned by cheap newsprint...
...figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should be discontinued because they posed more of a risk to the FBI's reputation than he wished to take...
...deals may risk reviving the image of el Pulpo; the beef will not be fed to hungry Latins, but will be shipped...