Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alleged mastermind of this scheme was a man who knows a good business opportunity when he sees one: Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents...
Take New York City. If families were separated from each other for the sake of diversity--as supporters of randomization define the word--what would happen to the culture of Chinatown, Little Italy or the Hasidic Jewish community on the Lower East Side...
During the campaign, the women picketed in front of the State House and locations in Chinatown. The unemployed workers also spent many hours in planning meetings, discussing strategy...
...Older women in Chinatown have a history of being active," she said, responding to an audience member's question. A small crowd attended the program which was geared toward exposing the often overlooked strengths of Asian women...
...that has not stopped him from trying. In addition to writing the score for the upcoming Sidney Lumet film Q and A, Blades has completed acting parts in three movies: Spike Lee's film; The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton; and The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown that features Jack Nicholson as star and director. Nicholson shot around Blades' music tour in order to nab him for the role of Mickey Nice, a Jewish gangster from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think...