Word: whitecollar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passing judgment on businessmen, the courts face what Yale's Wheeler calls a "paradox of leniency and severity." Says he: "Many whitecollar criminals are first-time offenders who have records of contributions to their community and have often led exemplary lives. From that point of view, they deserve a great deal of leniency. On the other hand, they occupy positions of power and trust, and their violation of the law is significant. Judges try to weigh one interest against the other, and it's often a difficult...
...leadership, like boldness and enthusiasm, that cannot be written into bills and dropped in a legislative hopper. The Democrats have not had a candidate who possessed those qualities since John Kennedy. Reagan has been a master of the intangibles, emerging as a leader of a new populism composed of whitecollar, high-tech, professional, small-merchant voters itching for an assault on the Washington royalists...
...never been away. He spent the last years of the '60s making a trio of police dramas (Tony Rome, The Detective, Lady in Cement), and here he is, at 64, back in the N.Y.P.D. to solve one last crime before retirement. A whitecollar, black-leather maniac named Blank (David Dukes) is on the loose in Manhattan with an ice ax and too much spare time. Because the murders have been committed in different parts of town, the harried police captain offers Sergeant Edward X. Delaney (Sinatra) no help in cracking the case. The old campaigner must catch the slick...