Word: bustingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't know the names of his assailants, and there was no record of his arrest or appearance at the station house, but it didn't take long for Gallagher to figure it out: Ryan and Blondie. Yet even with Colbert's testimony, it took time--and luck--to bust Blondie and his confederates. There was, after all, no paper trail...
...cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police officers made no more arrests than New York City cops, during Rizzo's eight years as mayor they were 37 times as likely to shoot unarmed citizens fleeing...
There is a certain hypocrisy to the "Cops in Shops" program insofar as that before Scott Krueger's death, allocating valuable police resources to bust first years for buying a couple of 12-packs was not a priority for the Cambridge Police Department. And it should not be now. However, it is the staff that is being underhanded here, by pretending that it has logistical problems with the program when all it really wants is the right to buy booze illegally...
...Didn't Die: When the oil refinery closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...
Then last week Japan tried the unthinkable: regulators let a prominent yet insolvent bank, Hokkaido Takushoku, go bust. Instead of a panic, Japan's Western-style measure elicited a Western-style response: stocks surged 11% in two days. Imagine the rally if they had killed a bigger bank. Investors in the U.S. aren't strangers to the perversity of free markets. How many times have you seen a company so down that it says it must shed thousands of jobs, and the stock zooms? So ingrained is this convoluted logic that the mere appointment of a CEO known for tough...