Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winners in a homestead auction, Barry waltzed into Room 727 of the Vista International Hotel, just six blocks from the White House. It is also only two blocks from another Washington hotel, where 13 months ago police mysteriously aborted a planned arrest of Charles Lewis, a suspected drug dealer, when they learned that Barry was in his room...
...million desk. The mahogany masterpiece was no curlicued Versailles settee or crested English bureau. It was a stately secretary of distinctly American block-and-shell design, crafted in 1760 by the Goddard-Townsend cabinetmakers of Newport, R.I. "For years, Europeans have given us an inferiority complex," says furniture dealer Harold Sack, 78, who bought the desk for an anonymous client, believed to be Texas billionaire Robert Bass. "To finally see American furniture taken as an important art form is enormously gratifying...
...principal buyers of colonial furniture are American businessmen. But dealer Donald Sack, grandson of the firm's founder, believes that "if any more pieces break the $1 million mark, the Japanese may well get interested." As prices have risen, the buyers' profile has changed. "Doctors used to be our customers, but they can't afford the furniture anymore," says Harold. "Now our customers are educated Americans who don't survive on an income; rather, they have large sums of capital from the sale of a company or real estate." The most celebrated collector is Bill Cosby, who includes reproductions...
Mexican officials were enraged by the program, and last week the government- owned television network launched a counterattack: an hour-long documentary charging that Camarena himself was a narcotics dealer and was killed after he betrayed the drug lords he worked for. Drug Enforcement Administration Director Jack Lawn, a prominent character in the NBC program, labeled the charges "outrageous" and pointed out that Camarena died penniless...
...said they didn't know. If you had told me about this a couple of months ago, I'd say it was American propaganda. It's as if you were suddenly told that your grandmother was a thief, your mother was a whore, your father was a drug dealer...