Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thugs who founded the crack trade recognized early on that young teens do not run the risk of mandatory jail sentences that courts hand out to older dealers. Because juveniles are rarely imprisoned for any great length of time, they provide a uniquely recyclable labor pool. "We have created a revolving door," says George Robinson, assistant district attorney for Fulton County, Ga., which covers Atlanta. "There is no provision under our law to mandate restrictive custody for these youths. They're selling drugs, and we're just spanking them on the hands...
...dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought U.S. audiences one of their most comprehensive and compelling looks yet at the strife in Israel. Israeli TV, on the other hand, did not carry the shows...
...price of changing policy every two years, and . . . vote every six months." One of Chirac's attractions remains his past two years in office. The Premier already has a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly that he can use to govern if elected. On the other hand, Mitterrand, if re-elected, would have to fashion his own parliamentary majority...
...capable of extracting Nicaragua from the economic mire in which the country finds itself. "We all want peace more than anything else," says Julio Duarte, a salesman from Managua who sells cheap cosmetics and novelties to the stores in Pantasma. "But peace and prosperity don't necessarily go hand in hand...
Some American companies have found ways around the currency problem. PepsiCo, which plans to build two Pizza Hut shops in Moscow later this year, will accept rubles at one outlet and collect foreign currencies at another one, in a tourist neighborhood. Occidental, on the other hand, will export 25% of the plastics produced in its Soviet factories for sale in Western Europe and other markets...