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Only one company, the Exelon Corporation of Chicago, which provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns in recent years, has an interest in promoting the reactor. 1 Small-Town Robberies Rise The number of bank robberies in the nation's small towns has jumped 82percentt.

In a study published 20 October in The Review of Economics and Statistics, researchers found that when people turn their clocks back in fall, robberies rise by 7% over the whole day, with a 27% increase in the hours during and just after sunset.

Across the nation bank robberies rose 17percentt from 1995 to 2001.

But the rate of house robberies rose 7percentt and the rate of robberies at businesses climbed by 29percentt.

Crime statistics released Thursday also showed a 10.4 percent drop in street robberies, and a 6.8 percent decline in carjackings, while home robberies rose 1.9 percent.

The figures show that in the first month of this year, rapes rose 10.9percentto to 274, while robberies rose 17.7percentto to 7,942, Deputy Chief Michael A. Markman said.

A second Justice Department official said the murder rate was also up, if modestly, and that robberies rose by as much as 6percentt.

While all violent crimes rose only 4.6percentthethe police said, the murder rate - swelled by a tragic social club fire in the Bronx last March -jumped by almost 29percentt, while robberies rose by almost 10percentt, compared to the first half of 1989.

Though the crime rate continues to slide in New York City, the number of homicides, rapes and robberies rose sharply outside the five boroughs last year, particularly in a few upstate cities, according to new statistics recently posted on the Internet by state officials.

Their slogan might have echoed De Niro's Travis Bickle: "You talkin' to me?" That paranoia was not provoked by an urban legend; Hodges tells us that driver robberies rose from 438 in 1963 to 3,208 in 1979, and this fed the pervasive hackie racism of the 1970s and '80s.

But for Radwan, Egypt is already at that stage: robbery rose 350% in 2012 as Egyptians took wealth redistribution into their own hands.