Word: weaponeering
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...lives of men and women who are being educated while incarcerated. What happens to offenders when they are in prison will eventually contribute to an increase or decrease in crime once they are again on the outside. Fortunately, the correctional educators are succeeding. Education is the ultimate weapon against crime, and the public and politicians must embrace this. ERROL CRAIG SULL, President Correctional Education Co. Buffalo, New York...
...Teenage Time Bomb" [CRIME, Jan. 15], should have been titled "A Teenage Time Bomb Explodes," because the present is just a shadow of what lies ahead. According to a recent poll, more than 12% of today's teenagers (and 40% of those in high-crime neighborhoods) carry a weapon for protection. Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason at all. These teens have no fear of dying...
...theaters, hired Biondi shortly after acquiring Viacom in a leveraged buyout in 1987. A Harvard M.B.A. and former chief executive at HBO, Biondi had a style that seemed to mesh well with that of the boss: Redstone, the volatile, confrontational owner; Biondi, the even-tempered manager--Redstone's "secret weapon," in the words of a New Yorker profile by Ken Auletta a year...
...process, they were handing Clinton a weapon he could turn against them. The debate would no longer be about who had a serious plan but about who had a better one. Polls continued to show that a large majority of voters hated the G.O.P. Medicare proposals and thought they were designed mainly to make room for lavish tax cuts for rich Republican allies. This put Clinton in a neat position. If Gingrich and Senate majority leader Robert Dole accepted his terms, he could take credit for balancing the budget without shredding the safety net. If they rejected it, he could...
...believed a transplant could help her. "The available proof for its efficacy in breast cancer was at least equivalent to many other procedures that we do every day," he says. As early as 1990, even Health Net had found evidence that bone-marrow transplants might become a standard weapon against breast cancer. That year the company's then chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard Knapp, ordered a study by Technology Assessment Group of San Francisco to evaluate the treatment. The report, however, didn't reach the conclusion he had hoped for. It found that 3 out of 4 insurers paid...