Word: baron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most inmates, prison is a spartan experience. But not for Mexican drug baron Oliverio Chavez Araujo, 33, who has been linked to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and has been incarcerated since 1986 at the state prison in Matamoros. After members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell, which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine. Though state police ringed...
Having had a king, ambassador, poet, professor and economist at the podium, Harvard decided to extend an invitation to a baron. As a result, Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington addressed the 336th Commencement exercises...
...1980s corporate raider going the way of the 1890s robber baron? Exhibit A: last week Carl Icahn, TWA chairman and high-stakes player during the Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3% interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely...
...Harvard Square is kind of like Haight-Ashbury was," said Sarah J. Baron, a student at Framingham State College, referring to the San Francisco street-corner where the hippies gathered. "I hope it doesn...
...fishermen, Belize is a paradise and always has been. Its big holiday, after Christmas, is Baron Bliss Day on March 9. The festival commemorates an eccentric English nobleman who went there for the fishing, died in 1926 on his yacht in Belize harbor and left a part of his fortune to the colony -- a grateful sportsman if ever there was one. But in its obscurity, Belize gets only 1% of the tourist traffic to Central America, although word about it has begun...