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The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released the following hate crime statistics for 1998:

In 1998, a total of 7,755 bias-motivated criminal incidents were reported to the Bureau's Uniform Crime Reporting Program
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4,321; religious bias accounted for 1,390; sexual-orientation bias was the cause of 1,260; ethnicity/national origin bias
represented 754; disability bias was associated with 25; and the remaining 5 incidents were the result of multiple biases.

Sixty-eight percent of the 9,235 offenses reported (some incidents may include more than one offense) were crimes against
persons. Intimidation, the most frequently reported hate crime against persons as well as the most frequently reported hate
crime of all offenses measured, accounted for 38 percent of the total. In addition, the person crimes of simple assault and
aggravated assault accounted for 18 percent and 12 percent, respectively. Destruction/ damage/vandalism, the most
frequently reported crime against property, accounted for 28 percent of all reported offenses.

Thirteen persons were murdered in incidents motivated by hate. Racial bias was the motivation for 8 murders, and
sexual-orientation bias the motivation for 4. The remaining murder was motivated by ethnicity/national origin bias.

Eight out of 10 of the 9,722 reported hate crime victims were individuals (people), while the remaining victims were
businesses, religious organizations, or various other targets. Of the total victims, 57 percent were victimized because of their
race, 18 percent because of their religious preference, and 15 percent because of their sexual orientation. The remaining
victims suffered because of their ethnicity/national origin or disability.

Law enforcement agencies identified 7,489 offenders in connection with the 7,755 incidents reported in 1998. Offenders were
unknown for 3,686, or 48 percent, of the incidents. Thirty-five percent of the 7,489 known offenders were reported in
association with the offense of intimidation.

The majority (31 percent) of hate crime incidents reported in 1998 occurred in/on residential properties. Incidents perpetrated
on highways/roads/alleys/streets comprised 20 percent of the total incidents, and 9 percent occurred at schools or colleges.
The remaining incidents were distributed among various locations.

Agencies participating in the Hate Crime Data Collection Program in 1998 represented over 216 million United States
inhabitants, or 80 percent, of the Nation's population. Even though not all agencies participate in the Hate Crime Program,
reports from participants offer perspectives on the general nature of hate crime occurrence.

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planet, n.1
/plænt/ Forms: 36 planete, (46 -ette, 5 -ett, Sc. -ait, 6 Sc. -eit, 7 plannet(t), 5 planet.
[ME. a. OF. planete (F. planète), ad. late L. planeta or planetes (cited only in pl. planetæ = cl. L.
stellæ errantes), a. Gr. wanderer, hence, in pl. () wandering stars,
planets, f. to lead astray, in passive to wander. (Another Gr. form was , -, in
pl. , L. planetes.)]
1. a. Old Astron. A heavenly body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent
motion of its own among them; each planet, according to the Ptolemaic system, being carried round
the earth by the rotation of the particular sphere or orb in which it was placed. Obs.
The seven planets, in the order of their accepted distance from the Earth, were the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the
Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
[c 1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 320 Þa steorran þe man hæt planete on lyden.] a 1300
Cursor M. 1550 (Cott.) Þe planetes all ar went again O þair first making in to þe state. c 1400 Destr. Troy 4366
Venus the worthy..of planettes of prise has hor pure nome. c 1420 LYDG. Assembly of Gods 1695 The seuyn
planettys Haue her propre names by astronomers. c 1470 HENRY Wallace XI. 500 Quhill day began to peyr; A
thyk myst fell, the planet was not cleyr. 1481 CAXTON Myrr. I. xx. 60. A way that is comune to the vii planetes.
1600 NASHE Summer's Last Will D j, Resplendent Sol, chiefe planet of the heauens. 1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. I.
ii. I. ii. (1651) 45 Gregorius Tholosanus makes seven kindes of ætherial spirits or angels, according to the
number of the seven Planets, Saturnine, Jovial, Martial. 1687 tr. Marana's Turkish Spy I. xii. 35 It is a great
while since we have had any Commerce here with the Sun; there being forty nine Days since this beauteous
Planet appeared to us. 1727 BAILEY vol. II. s.v., There is none of the Planets, except the Sun that shines with
his own Light. 1766 PORNY Heraldry (1787) 19 Arms..are blazoned..by Planets, when they belong to Sovereign
Princes, Kings, and Emperors.
b. esp. in Astrol., said with reference to the supposed `influence' or quality of any one of these
bodies in affecting persons and events; in later usage said vaguely or allusively of an occult
controlling fateful power.
c 1290 St. Michael 431 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 312 Þe planetes ne doth non oþur bot iuez in mannes wille, To beon
luþur oþur guod ase heore uertue wole to tille. c 1391 CHAUCER Astrol. I. §21 Whan the planetes ben vnder
thilke signes, þei causen vs by hir influence operaciouns & effectes lik to the operaciouns of bestes. c 1400
MAUNDEV. (Roxb.) xviii. 81 Þai dwell vnder a planett þat es called Saturnus. 1568 GRAFTON Chron. II. 616 The
wittie Captaynes..thought it necessary to take the tyme while their good planet reigned. 1570 GOLDING Justin
XIX. 99 Sodainly by the influence of a pestilent planet, [he] lost all his men of warre. 1670 MILTON Hist. Eng. II.
Wks. 1851 V. 93 Blind, astonish'd, and strook with superstition as with a Planet. 1738 SWIFT Pol. Conversat.
82, I was born under a Threepenny Planet, never to be worth a Groat. 1837 MRS. SHERWOOD Henry Milner III.
ix. 176 One of us poor creatures who are born under a three-halfpenny planet.
c. to rain, etc., by planets, in planets (dial.): see quots. to rule a planet, said of the zodiacal sign
in which the planet is (obs.), (b) of a person, To calculate a horoscope, practise astrology. dial.
c 1470 HENRY Wallace VII. 175 That wykked syng so rewled the planait; Saturn was than in till his heast stait.
1670 RAY Eng. Prov. 45 It rains by planets, this the Countrey people use when it rains in one place and not in
another; meaning that the showers are governed by the Planets. 1807 STAGG Poems 22 Heavier now the
tempest musters, Down in plennets teems the rain. a 1825 FORBY Voc. E. Anglia s.v., In changeable weather
the rain and sunshine come and go by planets. A man of unsteady mind acts by planets; meaning much the
same as by fits and starts. 1882 in Lucas Stud. Nidderdale 206 That no two floods in Nidderdale are alike in
effect, which is locally accounted for by saying, `that the rain falls in planets'. 1886 ELWORTHY W. Somerset
Word-bk. s.v., To `rule the planets' is to practise rustic astrology. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., `He's getten his
planet ruled.'
2. Mod. Astron. The name given to each of the heavenly bodies that revolve in approximately
circular orbits round the sun (primary planets), and to those that revolve round these (secondary
planets or SATELLITES).
The primary planets comprise the major planets, of which nine are known, viz., in order of distance from the
sun, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and the minor planets or
ASTEROIDS, the orbits of most of which lie between those of Mars and Jupiter.
1640 WILKINS (title) A Discovrse concerning a New Planet. Tending to prove, That 'tis probable our Earth is
one of the Planets. 1664 POWER Exp. Philos. III. 163 Who can imagine that any of the primary Planets were
wholly designed for the service of Us and our Earth? 1704 J. HARRIS Lex. Techn. I. s.v., We now number the
Earth among the Primary Planets, because we know it moves round the Sun,..and that in a Path or Circle
between Mars and Venus. 1710 Ibid. II. s.v., The Motions of the Secondary Planets or Satellites round their
Primary ones. 1815 J. SMITH Panorama Sc. & Art I. 510 The primary planets are again distinguished into
superior and inferior. The superior planets are those farther from the sun than our Earth..and the inferior
planets are those nearer the sun. 1836 MACGILLIVRAY tr. Humboldt's Trav. xix. 279 The waters have scooped a
great hollow..in the ancient revolutions of our planet. 1850 TENNYSON In Mem. Concl. 138 The man, that with
me trod This planet. 1878 HUXLEY Physiogr. xxi. 371 Astronomers are acquainted with 182 bodies called
planets.

3. fig. In various obvious senses: e.g. a source of influence; a luminary; (rogues' cant) a candle.
1423 JAS. I Kingis Q. xcix, Hye quene of lufe! sterre of beneuolence! Pitouse princes, and planet merciable!
1596 DRAYTON Legends ii. 237 Those two bright Planets, cleerer then the Seven, That with their Splendor, light
the World to Heaven. 1790 J. ADAMS Wks. (1854) IX. 571 What the conjunctions and oppositions of two such
political planets may produce, I know not. 1840 LONGF. Sp. Stud. III. v, As soon as you see the planets are out,
in with you.
A planet wheel.
1912 R. W. A. BREWER Motor Car Construction xii. 154 If one sun wheel is held, the whole of the planets
with their star piece move bodily in a circle when the other sun wheel is revolved. 1928 V. W. PAGÉ Mod.
Aircraft xi. 474 Various methods of compounding plain epicyclic gears have been tried, but the best type is
undoubtedly that combining double planets, an annulus driven from the crankshaft, and a sun fixed to the
engine casing. 1962 D. W. DUDLEY Gear Handbk. iii. 15 With some ratios it has been possible to squeeze in as
many as twenty planets. 1970 A.A. Bk. of Car 110/1 In the simple epicyclic gear, a pair of planets revolve on
spindles supported by the U-shaped planet carrier, which is mounted on the same shaft as the sun wheel.
attrib. and Comb., as planet-making, -prognosticator, -ruler (cf. 1 c), -sphere; also
planet-blazoned, -crested, -like, -producing, -spotted adjs.; planet-book, a book professing to tell
fortunes by means of the planets; planet cage, a cylindrical form of planet carrier; planet carrier,
the frame on which the planet wheels are mounted in a planetary gear; planet earth (without the,
and usu. with one or both initials capitals), the earth as the particular planet on which man lives;
planet-gear, a system of gearing in which planet-wheels are introduced; a mechanical combination
for converting power into speed; a planet wheel; also planet-gearing; planet pinion, a planet
wheel, esp. one smaller than the sun wheel; planet shower, a local shower (cf. PLANET n.1 1 c);
planet stirrer = planetary stirrer s.v. PLANETARY a. and n. A. 1 f; planet-wheel, the exterior
wheel which revolves round the central or sun wheel, in the SUN-AND-PLANET motion; planet-wide
a., occurring all over the planet, as extensive as the planet. See also PLANET-STRICKEN, -STRUCK.

1839 BARHAM tr. Grotius' Adamus Exul 43 This vast and *planet-blazoned universe.

1677 Rosamond in Evans Old Ballads (1784) I. 72 Go fetch me down my *planet-book,..For in the same I mean
to look, What is decreed my doom.

1908 *Planet cage [see planet pinion below]. 1947 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LI. 100/1 This usually leads to the
adoption of an epicyclic gear with its associated problems of planet cage design and high centrifugal loadings.

1956 MOLLOY & LANCHESTER Automobile Engineer's Ref. Bk. XII. 60 The short planet gears rotate round the
internal ring gear, in the same direction as the input shaft, thus rotating the *planet carrier and attached output
shaft at a reduced speed. 1976 LEEMING & HARTLEY Heavy Vehicle Technol. vi. 117/2 If the planet carrier is
braked and the sun wheel driven, the annulus is driven in a reverse direction - the planet wheels being idler
wheels only - and reverse ratio is obtained.

1965 J. H. JACKSON Pictorial Guide to Planets v. 34 (heading) *Planet earth. 1976 L. DEIGHTON Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Spy viii. 80 We should simply seek to make a mark in the universe..that some other civilization
will detect and so know there is..sophisticated life on planet Earth. 1978 Listener 12 Jan. 54/1 The hopeful
television producers..who have invaded planet earth. 1979 Guardian 18 Aug. 10/8 The SF buff..believes that
Planet Earth is done for... He wants more money spent on space.

1916 J. E. HOMANS Automobile Handbk. iii. 42 As soon as the engine starts - there being no clutch necessary
on a car with such apparatus - the two spurs keyed to the main shaft..rotate with it, driving the `*planet' gears
in mesh with them. 1956 [see planet carrier above]. 1971 B. SCHARF Engin. & its Lang. xii. 161 The planet
gears are mounted on pins attached to a common frame, the planet carrier.

1581 SIDNEY Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 72 If..you be borne so neere the dull making Cataphract of Nilus, that you
cannot heare the *Plannet-like Musick of Poetrie. 1715 CHEYNE Philos. Princ. Relig. I. 74 The Sun and fixt
Stars are only Planet-like Bodies, vehemently heated. 1839 BAILEY Festus xxiv. (1848) 303 Oh! let not a
planet-like eye Imbeam its tale on thine.

1908 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 8/6 Greater attention is being paid to the elimination of internal friction from these
devices, as in the provision of ball bearings for the *planet pinions in the Sturmey Archer gears, and roller
bearings for the planet cage in the Armstrong. a 1935 [see BACK-LASH a]. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. &
Technol. X. 273/2 The number of teeth on the planet pinion of a simple planetary gear does not enter into the
equations for speed ratio because the pinion engages both sun and ring gears.

1652 GAULE Magastrom. 23 Away..with all superstitious hearkning to weather-wizzards,
*planet-prognosticators, and fortune-spellers!

1894 Spectator 17 Feb. 231 She went to consult a *planet-ruler (the name now given to white witches) in
Bristol.

1853 MAYNE REID Rifle Rangers (rev. ed.) lvii. 288 We were treated each day to some five or six hours of a
`*planet' shower. 1880 W. H. PATTERSON Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 78 Planet showers, short heavy
showers.

1925 E. SITWELL Troy Park 39 Not medicines *planet-spotted like fritillaries For country sins and old
stupidities.

1902 C. SALTER tr. G. von Georgievics's Chem. Technol. Textile Fibres 249 Stirring is effected by so-called
*planet stirrers.

1827 J. FAREY Treat. Steam Engine I. vi. 449 The link causes the centre of the *planet-wheel to travel in a
circular orbit..when it revolves round the sun-wheel. 1875 KNIGHT Dict. Mech. 1727 The latter sleeve has an
arm carrying a planet-wheel. 1912 R. W. A. BREWER Motor Car Construction xii. 153 The large bevel wheel is
bolted to a casing, which holds firmly a star piece having four arms on each of which runs a planet wheel...
These four planet wheels engage with two sun wheels. 1976 Planet-wheel [see planet carrier above].

1969 Listener 14 Aug. 215/2 It is now evident that on Mars, the craters are *planet-wide. 1974 Icarus XXII.
239 (heading) Martian planetwide crater distributions.
Hence planet v. Obs. rare (with it), to divine by the planets; planeted ppl. a., placed in a planet;
planeting vbl. n., the (fabled) singing or music of the planets.
1596 NASHE Saffron-Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 121 A singular Scholler,..set vpon it, and answered it in
Print..demonstrating what a lying Ribaden, and Chinklen Kraga it was, to constellate and plannet it so
portentously. 1742 YOUNG Nt. Th. IX. 777 Tell me, all Ye Starr'd, and Planeted, Inhabitants! What is it? 1635 B.
JONSON Sad Sheph. III. ii, Tempering all The jarring spheres, and giving to the world Again his first and tuneful
planetting.

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