Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last March, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested Barnes. A federal grand jury had indicted him and five of his top "lieutenants" for conspiring to distribute 44 Ibs. of heroin (estimated wholesale price: $1 million) once a month, starting in November 1976, from Barnes' Harlem garage. New York cops, however, grumbled that the feds had rushed in too soon. Having painstakingly tailed and eavesdropped on Barnes for more than ten years, local narcs figured they were building a better case against...
...ironically so, since Washington once had far more power than it could use and still has the cheapest household rates in the country (about one-quarter the cost in New York State). In the '30s the Federal Government began damming the lordly 1,210-mile Columbia River; the Grand Coulee, the Bonneville and 24 other dams in the system are the heart of a Northwest network that generates 43% of all the hydroelectric power in the nation, yet even that is not enough. Demand in the region is expected to double in 20 years. Problem: building more dams...
Seattle is now enjoying the benefits of another of Ellis' grand plans, known as Forward Thrust. Voters in 1968 approved $334 million in bonds to finance 615 civic improvement projects in Ellis' package. Freeway Park, for instance, a five-acre area of greenery and waterfalls, was built on a great lid placed over a downtown thoroughfare. The program, which scattered parks and swimming pools all over town, also financed the $59.8 million stadium that Kingdome, a covered stadium that literally made Seattle a big-league city. It is the home of the Seahawks (football), the Sounders (soccer...
Charles Percy, Illinois Senator, ruminating on the ailments troubling the Grand Old Party: "We have to get the party out of the country clubs, out of a Caucasian atmosphere, away from the Anglo-Saxon approach. As long as the Republican Party takes a Neanderthal point of view, I don't see why it deserves...
There was also some political opposition to the corporation's holiday inflation, but the company made heavy contributions to the campaigns of any Exalted Poobahs who would support a longer Christmas. And The Santa Corporation also had friends in the executive office of the Grand High Hoozie of the Land--friends who could make things very difficult for any dissident groups opposing the extension of Christmas. The Hoozie used his palace guard to infiltrate pro-Noel organizations; one Hoozie aide had a placard hanging on his office wall bearing the inscription, "When you've got them by the Christmas balls...