Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They weren't the kind of deposit one slips through the slot at the ATM. According to the New York Times, Russian mobsters are thought to have laundered billions of dollars through an old-line American financial institution, the Bank of New York. Investigators, tipped off by British authorities, spotted some $4.2 billion flowing through one account in more than 10,000 transactions from October to March of this year. The total could be as high as a staggering $10 billion ? double the size of Russia's latest IMF bailout check. The target of investigators is Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich...
...long time to work and a long time to wear off. That's changed with FDA approval of Sonata, a new prescription sleeping pill. People who used Sonata in clinical trials were usually snoozing within 30 minutes of taking the drug, and reported little grogginess upon waking. Drug maker American Home Products sees Sonata as a direct competitor to the current leading treatment for insomnia, Monsanto's Ambien...
...buzz about the new game - which will be known as American McGee's Alice, after the game's creator - is huge, and that's exactly what Electronic Arts hoped for. The announcement was preceded by 13 weeks of more or less cryptic hints - music boxes, the sound of children laughing, portentous poems. Even now, little hard information has been released. The game's official site carries an image of a Cheshire Cat with an earring, a skeletal neck, and a more sinister smile than Carroll probably originally envisioned. It also features scraps of verse along fairly predictable lines...
...Cuban American vs. Cuba: Ana Margarita Martinez filed a sexual-violation suit against Cuba, saying she was deceived into marrying a Cuban spy who vanished...
Easy Cheese .01 One 8 oz. can...American!!! Will trade