Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gang on the WELL welcomed me with open arms. I was soon ``talking'' around the clock to people all over California and beyond about important issues of the day -- like the latest technology or how the 49ers were doing. As a reward for my enthusiasm, the powers that ran the WELL asked me to run my own conferences and gave me a free account. At least it seemed free at first. The real, hidden costs -- professional, financial, physical and emotional -- were only just beginning to mount...
...difficulties soon would end, however, as Ben-Shachar an friends then took the courts. The Crimson players lost only two sets in the five odd seeded matches, and it was Kool and the Gang celebrations time...
...bought at cross-border prices--typically about $15,000 a kilo. They cut the coke and ratcheted up the price as they resold supplies in outlying markets. Then with expansion came branches and outposts beyond the bounds of Los Angeles, as well as franchise-like agreements with local, allegedly gang-connected distributors. Says Sergeant Steve Spanard of the Denver Police antigang unit: ``We never had Eight Treys in Denver before Q showed...
...none has turned evidence against the others, though all except the newly apprehended Lee have pleaded guilty. Defense attorneys are arguing that Q's was ``a loose confederation of friends who lived in gang neighborhoods who got to know each other,'' a claim they hope will help their planned appeal. As it is, at their sentencing next month, the defendants could each receive 20 to 33 years in federal prison. Law enforcers are proud of having bagged one set of drug entrepreneurs. Now, there are only about 100 more...
...husband and his colleagues in the African National Congress. During his 27 years in prison she was first a heroine of the antiapartheid movement and then an imperious rival to its leadership. The movement publicly condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a ``reign of terror'' on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards; she was later convicted of kidnapping. She now could pose a political threat to the President. Voicing her angry populism, she provides leadership to thousands of young, militant township dwellers who are impatient with a deliberative political process and cooperation with South Africa's whites...