1.   The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.

2.   The mayor promised to put a stop to the rampant crime that plagued the city.

3.   Barricades were erected five years after residents complained about rampant crime and drive-by drug dealing.

4.   But in a country that is burdened by rampant crime and fond of doling out draconian punishments, his ideas are considered revolutionary.

5.   But voters talk about rampant crime and the lack of government control.

6.   His nemeses are rampant crime and an entrenched bureaucracy.

7.   However, the Communist leader said he would end corruption in government, launch a war on rampant Russian crime by establishing a more authoritarian state.

8.   In an age of rampant violent crimes and sophisticated drug trafficking, a supermarket burglary commands little attention.

9.   Its television advertising, for instance, says he is responsible for high taxes and rampant crime in New York state.

10.   Most Americans seem to think that Moscow is the wild, wild East, a land of mafia shootouts, bombings and rampant crime.