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...customers, a growing number of gangs are going national, with black gangs like Los Angeles' Crips and Chicago's Disciples establishing franchises in cities from Seattle to Shreveport, La. "They're all over," says Detective Robert Jackson of the Los Angeles police department gang detail. "We've got a glut of coke here in Los Angeles, and the price is down. They can make three times as much money in Phoenix or Denver." Phoenix has suffered seven gang-related murders this year. In Denver the first Crips were detected in 1984; last March police there busted a crack house...
...prison for 700 minimum- security offenders. The potential savings are considerable: as much as 70% over a comparable building, which would cost $50 million to construct. New York City's floating detention centers, says Ruby Ryles, a city corrections department official, are a "quick fix" to a prisoner glut that has swelled the local jail population to 102% of capacity...
...frustration level has risen in response to the glut of hitting talent. It's been almost a decade since the game was last populate by so many players who legitimately deserve the label "future hall-of-famer...
...threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and long desisted, for the simple reason that nearly all its own oil flows through the strait. And the tanker war in the Persian Gulf has been raging for almost four years, during which time the world has seen the greatest oil glut and sharpest price collapse in history. The Administration wants to protect Kuwaiti oil not because the West needs to buy Kuwaiti oil, but because Kuwait needs to sell...
...paying blue-collar work. Nutritionists despaired over the high fat and sodium content of McDonald's fare, while food snobs ridiculed creations like Big Mac's "special sauce" as gooey and gross. Even investors, who had been smitten with McDonald's stock for two decades, were predicting that a glut of golden arches would soon put an end to the chain's glory days of growth...