Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never a band per se, Steely Dan was actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis with the 1977 album Aja, a seamless amalgam of rock and jazz idioms that spawned the single Peg. Three years later, Becker and Fagen joined forces one last time for Gaucho, before, in Fagen's words, reaching "a dead...
...Berry acknowledged that he has ordered managers to crack down on abuses of sick leave...
WHEN HUMAN-RIGHTS CHAMPION JORGE CARPIZO MacGregor took over as Mexico's Attorney General early this year, he vowed to crack down on drug traffickers and the corrupt government officials who collaborate with them. Few citizens expected much action. But Mexican police have already killed two drug lords, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and Emilio Quintero Payan, the alleged leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Carpizo's agents have captured more than 15 tons of cocaine, one-third more than in all of 1992. In one bust, police found 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden in 8,000 cans of jalapeno peppers...
...paid for its sins. Only a few months before % the disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev had unveiled his new policy of glasnost, or openness. His idea was simply to expose the corruption of old-line communists and revitalize the party; the fear and anger triggered by Chernobyl, though, wedged that small crack of openness into a rift that eventually destroyed Gorbachev's power and the country itself...
...mandatory sentences legislated by drug-war hawks during the Reagan-Bush era. Reno announced a sweeping review of federal drug- punishment policies to determine if packing prisons with small-time offenders -- say, sentencing a 19-year-old courier to five years for transporting as little as five grams of crack -- makes sense or justice...