Word: booted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chambers gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was the supply of green kids from Marianna, who were subjected to a regimen far more harrowing than Marine boot camp...
Beethoven's Seventh, Die Walkure, Mission Impossible and the "Pac Man" theme, to boot...
...generations of Russians, books have been surrounded by exaltation and tragedy. In a prison camp in the Gulag during the 1960s, the poet and essayist Andrei Sinyavsky hid hand-copied pages of the Book of Revelations in the calf of his boot. He wrote, "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell waiting for you in the house when you return to it after half a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books...
...contract dispute out of court, there was a hint (rare on L.A. Law) that she might not be pulling her weight at the firm. The doubts, however, were short-lived: her clients made up, praised her effusively in front of the boss -- and got her a big raise to boot. No good deed goes unrewarded at McKenzie, Brackman. The show says you can have your ideals and your...
Still reeling from the oil bust, financially strapped Texas cities are tapping revenue from a lucrative but neglected source: unpaid traffic tickets. Houston may reap more than $1 million this year by using the "Denver Boot," a device that immobilizes cars whose owners have three or more delinquent tickets. In Dallas the payment of nearly 140,000 fines could bring $18 million to its coffers, and a telecomputer is dunning scofflaws at a rate of 150 calls an hour...