Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raping a woman in the Bronx last May; he faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years. On the same day, a New York justice ordered Barry Allen, 20, to serve the remainder of a four-year term for robbery after Allen broke his parole by stealing a gold chain. Troy Canty, 20, was sentenced last June to 18 months in a residential drug- treatment program after pleading guilty to petty theft. The fourth, Darrell Cabey, 20, shot in the spine by Goetz and paralyzed, is confined to a wheelchair for life...
...without suffering a single casualty, America's top military brass celebrated more than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
...take the class marshals to court unless they turn over $357,500 per mommy and daddy. But then the Undergraduate Council passes a motion impounding the $50 million for construction of a 37-story headquarters in Boston's financial district, complete with new furniture and a 60-foot, all-gold Big Finger statue in front...
HARM, the gold-plated ($283,000 each) high-speed antiradiation missile, which has been criticized by some Pentagon officials for poor test performance, succeeded in twice disabling a Libyan SA-5 radar station. Fired from the wing of a Navy A-7 Corsair jet, the missile homed in on signals emanating from the radar. A 14-ft.-long, 800-lb. weapon, HARM carries a 46-lb. high-explosive warhead over a range of about 40 miles. The Libyan radar resumed operations within hours of both attacks, but during a full-fledged battle, that would allow time for U.S. bombers...
...life in fear." When Piecyk was finally put on the witness stand, he lost his memory. He could not recall having been robbed by anyone. Wearing dark glasses, he pointedly avoided looking at Gotti, who lounged at the defense table, nattily dressed in a dark suit and flashing a gold watch and diamond ring. Asked if he could see anyone in the courtroom who had been involved in the parking dispute, Piecyk still looked away from Gotti and replied, "I do not." Complained one of the prosecutors: "His memory is missing or dead...