Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Cambridge Civic Association President R. Philip Dowds, "nothing is in the bag...
Like a battle-scarred prizefighter on the ropes in the title match, Harvard's endowment is struggling. Long the envy of higher education for its size--at nearly $5.5 billion, it is the heaviest of the heavyweights--the fund and its managers have more recently become a punching bag for critics after years of lackluster returns...
...year-old journalist, lost his job several months ago and cannot find a new one. The fees at his four-year-old son's religious school have risen from $23 to $114. The rent on the family's modest flat in Lagos has doubled to $36.50 a month. A bag of cassava flour that sold for $13.60 when the couple married in 1988 now goes for $50 or more. "Five years ago, I thought that by now we would have a fine home and two cars," says Dapo. "Now I wonder if I can ever have those things...
...warehouses. Half the cars were stolen; many others were insurance "give-ups" by financially strapped car owners. Not long after, the FBI revealed itself, Wills escaped and law enforcement officers have been tracking him ever since -- with no luck. The case, however, has sparked spin-off investigations that may bag some more chop-shop merchants, including a few ostensibly legitimate auto dealers, as well as "replaters," who transfer identification numbers from junked cars to stolen autos, passing them off as repaired and refurbished...
...their mouths," says Miami's Sergeant Camil. "There you are, daydreaming about dinner. You're not expecting a brick or a spark plug through the window," says Miami Police Department spokesman Angelo Bitsis. "If you were walking on the street and somebody was following you and staring at your bag, you know to prepare yourself. But in smash-and-grabs, the window is smashed, there's a hand in your car, your purse is gone and five seconds has elapsed...