Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call it the Good Friday rampage. At twilight on April 1, a brown Cadillac sedan glided up to the corner of Vernon and Raymond avenues in South Central Los Angeles. Words were exchanged between the young men in the car, members of a Crips street gang, and a 16-year-old who was hanging out on the sidewalk. Suddenly, the mobile "gangbangers" blasted the youth. A moment later, they turned their guns on a pedestrian across the street...
...sales (1987 U.S. total: $56 billion) is slowing, pizza purchases are booming. Americans will spend an estimated $15 billion on pizza this year, more than twice what they spent just five years ago. As pizza has become more popular, the chains have seemingly sprinkled their outlets on every street corner: Pizza Hut, the largest, has more than 5,400 outlets in the U.S. and 6,200 worldwide. Even McDonald's has test-marketed a pie, McPizza. With so much competition, "it's not enough anymore just to have the best pizza in town," says Paula Werne, editor of the trade...
Burks was also instrumental in producing the Sox' final tally. The centerfielder singled to open the fifth and came all the way around to score on Barrett's line-drive double into the leftfield corner...
Executives at K mart's Troy, Mich., headquarters are not complacent either. Though its sales have risen rapidly through the opening of new stores, profit margins have been tight. Says Art Eden, manager of a K mart in Sterling Heights, Mich.: "Every corner has a shopping center, and it's all your competition. They are up the street and down the street. If you just take a nap, you've lost it. It's as tough as I've ever seen." The company is looking for ways to lure customers into the stores. Some K marts have installed branches...
...carry guns is spread fairly evenly among age groups, across professions and around the country. "These are young women, older women; many are professional, but some are housewives," says Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes and themselves...