61.   Nowhere in the nation is the white-collar crime wave as serious as it is in the Los Angeles region, law officers said.

62.   Our government fears data-scrambling software could spawn a high-tech crime wave.

63.   Pettiford is a human crime wave.

64.   Psychologists warned that the loss of television could spark a rise in mental illness and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets predicted a crime wave.

65.   Political killings and the crime wave plaguing black townships has given South Africa a murder rate estimated to be five times that of the United States.

66.   Residents cite those problems, along with a disturbing crime wave, as their greatest concerns.

67.   She left a month later, but the crime wave only swelled.

68.   So far, the glare of public attention has failed to stop the crime wave.

69.   Social scientists in Culiacan say the crime wave began when ranchers and merchants discovered the profits of marijuana.

70.   Such killings have been common in neighboring El Salvador, where gang members deported from the United States have fueled a crime wave through much of this decade.