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Save for a few relics--the "rebel armored snow speeder" and the Destroy Death Star game--the Star Wars craze is over, replaced in part by a bewildering variety of careeroriented games...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Every Child a Deity | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

Maybe so, but VanderMaat notes that under the same weather conditions, the same radar foul-up could happen anywhere-and that it could be grounds for an accused speeder's defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ion the Speedometer | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Applying the principle of "response cost," some psychologists also say that a punishment must be in the same terms as the crime. Instead of fining a speeder, for example, they would immediately impound his car or license and make him walk home. Conversely, a cash theft might be dealt with not by jail but by a stiff fine equivalent to reparation. Another possibility for changing criminal behavior is "aversion therapy," which is used, for example, to cure bed wetting in children. Instead of chiding or coddling the child, the therapist has him sleep on a low-voltage electric blanket linked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Quintana's Box | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Under the aptly named chief of its Public Security group, William Gunn, Bangor Punta is rapidly becoming the Abercrombie & Fitch of law and order. Fully equipped by the company, a cop could use a Bangor Punta Dominator radarscope to spot a speeder or car thief, signal him to stop with a Dominator siren, pull out a Smith & Wesson .38 and pull on a Lake Erie gas mask, flush his quarry with Lake Erie tear gas, immobilize him with Mace, bring him to with a Stephenson resuscitator, check him for alcohol with a Breathalyzer, and slap on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MAKING CRIME PAY | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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