Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over the past decade White -- whose rap sheet lists crimes ranging from purse snatching to kidnaping -- has testified against at least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...
There was the usual core crowd behind the Harvard goal screaming their hearts out. The gang in the bunny masks and the spirited--if not talented--Harvard band did their part, and even the Big Guy made it back for the game. (please see accompanying picture...
OLIVER & COMPANY. Dickens with a twist: the sprightly tale of an orphan cat named Oliver, a gang of raffish dogs and a pampered poodle with Bette Midler's voice. A jaunty love song to New York City, and the best Disney cartoon feature since Walt died...
...gangs embrace a cold-blooded philosophy. Boasts a reputed member of New York's Vigilante gang, who was secretly videotaped by police while sipping champagne and explaining his trade: "We sell drugs and we kill." Often the victim is gunned down at close range in public, with little attempt to conceal the killer's identity. Witnesses who testify about such murders often become targets themselves. Indeed, overburdened police forces have had little success in breaking the power of the drug gangs, even when they have adopted systematic buy-and-bust tactics or resorted to the dragnet-style crackdowns pioneered...
...price of about $56 at the time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson and his top executives planned to grab for themselves: a payoff that could conceivably amount to $2.6 billion in five years. The Johnson gang's greedy overreach could wind up entirely undoing the proposed...