Word: busting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a humor to the confrontation, too. One classified advertisement read: "Missing: Striped straw bag, left in University Hall during the bust. Contains library books...
...felt that Harvard was an imperialist force in Cambridge and one of our chants was, 'U.S. out of Vietnam, Harvard out of Cambridge,'" says Temma Kaplan, who was arrested in the University Hall bust. "We had a very strong sense that Harvard was complicitous in the war in Vietnam," she adds...
...Frank Lorenzo. "But I never believed that we would be here today." Thus, six days into a bitter walkout by some 9,000 mechanics, baggage handlers and other members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Eastern last week became the largest airline in history to go bust. And even as Lorenzo vowed to bring Eastern out of bankruptcy stronger than ever, he conceded that it might be impossible to avoid selling off more of Eastern's already depleted assets...
BUSINESS: Strikebound Eastern goes bust...
...Singapore and Hong Kong, they were expecting to turn up about 50 lbs. of heroin in the raid. But hidden inside a stack of small rubber tires was an astonishing 820 lbs. of the narcotic, with an estimated street value of nearly $1 billion. It was the biggest heroin bust ever in the U.S. Some 40 people, including the ring's suspected kingpin, Kok Leung Woo, 71, were arrested in New York and more than half a dozen cities around the world...