Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felons who menace the streets of Hogan's Alley are more polite than the hardened crack dealers, pimps and prostitutes that lawmen face in real life. Hired from a role-playing company called Day By Day Associates, these make- believe meanies are paid $8 an hour. The company's roster of 60 role players includes part-time students, the wives of Leathernecks stationed at the neighboring Marine Corps base at Quantico, retirees and off-duty firemen and policemen...
Cocaine sales fueled the evolution of Detroit's gangs. They began as what Taylor calls "scavengers," youths preying on the most vulnerable residents of their neighborhoods. But when the double whammy of crack and job cutbacks in the auto plants smashed into Detroit's poorest areas during the 1980s, the gangs developed "corporate" organizations with a concern for the bottom line and enough discipline to use violence mainly to protect their drug-dealing turfs...
...Angeles are in Mexican custody, but the government has denied U.S. requests to question them. Though two defendants have been convicted of the murder in U.S. courts and five others are awaiting trial, so far none have agreed to talk. The DEA hopes that the doctor will crack. "Alvarez Machain is weak," says one investigator. "He can't do hard time...
...American consumers would curb their use of credit cards, lose the deduction on home mortgages and pay a stiff new gasoline tax. For its part, the U.S. wanted Tokyo to make it easier for large department stores to set up shop in Japanese cities, to boost public spending, to crack down on Japanese price-fixing and bid-rigging practices, and to shorten the workweek of Japanese employees to five days by eliminating half-day Saturday shifts. The ambitious talks were part of the Structural Impediments Initiative launched by President George Bush last May, which seeks to make fundamental economic changes...
...communiques. The struggle reaffirmed a fact that has become increasingly clear since Lithuania's declaration of independence two weeks ago: the mild-mannered pianist may turn out to be the Soviet President's most dangerous enemy -- not because he is so strong, but because Lithuania represents the first crack in what could be the collapse of the union that binds the country's 15 republics...