Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yomiuri reported that the daylight raid on its offices had been staged by organized gangsters in retaliation against the newspaper's describing them in a story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation...
...alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
Such violence reflects to a large extent the jungle of the slums, for it is there that the schools with the worst problems are located. For an addict needing money for his next fix, a student with lunch money is an obvious target. Gang fights frequently spill over into school buildings. Vandalism alone costs schools $200 million a year nationally. Violent acts are often so seemingly meaningless that they defy reason. Outside Intermediate School 155 in New York's desolate South Bronx, a youngster was nearly stomped to death recently during an argument over a bottle of soda...
Although oddsmakers had installed Frazier as a 3-1 favorite, there were more than the usual number of prefight imponderables. The line on Foreman was that he was untested. True, he had won 37 straight fights, 34 by knockouts, but his opponents were the most graceless gang of pugs this side of a waterfront brawl. He was undeniably a heavy hitter, but his attack seemed so lacking in finesse that he was sometimes booed in victory. He outweighed Frazier 217½ to 214 Ibs., had an advantage of 3½ in. in height and 5 in. in reach...
...five years, stay out of the services business itself in the U.S. for six years and reimburse Control Data for $15 million in legal fees spent on the case. Total cost of the package to IBM: at least $80 million. William C. Norris, Control Data's one-man-gang chairman, said that the daring suit had turned out to be "one of the best management decisions in our history...