Word: uniform
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State police uniform crime report statistics showed an 11.9-per-cent increase in serious crimes in Cambridge in 1975. A total of 8130 crimes were reported in the city...
Still, the thought of every home with hanging plants, every living room with varnished wood floors and Design Research hangings has locals worried. "The city could become more uniform, more homogeneous," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 says, adding, "In some ways it would be easier to govern, but it will certainly be much less interesting." Meanwhile, as tenants are evicted throughout the city, "there could be tremendous individual human suffering," Sullivan adds. "Twenty-five per cent of the city's apartment dwellers could be evicted in the next decade--suffering on that magnitude could make the problems before rent control...
...Harvard recruited me as a pitcher, but when I first came here I was hoping to play in the field too," the 21-year-old Stewart says. "But I've only been to the plate once in a Harvard uniform...
...course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed...
Sentencing. The present system is based on the now discredited theory that prisons rehabilitate; criminals are given lengthy terms, but routinely receive parole. The Senate bill calls for more uniform, realistic sentences and the elimination of early parole; the House proposal retains parole. Advocates of the Senate version argue that continuance of parole would undermine the reform effort; knowing that terms can be cut short, judges will continue to give unrealistically long sentences. The Senate bill would also allow both the Government and defendants to appeal sentences in certain circumstances. The House measure would allow this only for defendants...