Word: heydays
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...emerged largely as a result of the Mexican government's recent crackdown on the big cartels that have long monopolized the country's $25 billion-a-year drug trade. Experts call the phenomenon "atomization": as the large Mafias decompose, more reckless "microcartels" spin off or move in. In their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like the Zetas, whose members number at most in the low hundreds, are waging vicious battles against one another--and against remnants of cartels like the Sinaloa Mafia--to gain a foothold...
...gray dust of construction clinging to his shoes, Lloyd Chao leads a visitor through one of the cavernous sound stages in the new Shaw Studios production complex, perched on a windy hillside in Hong Kong. In its heyday Shaw Bros. churned out hundreds of films for Chinese-language audiences around the world, leading an industry that, by the mid-1980s, made a city of 6 million the world's third biggest movie producer. That's when Shaw began to phase out film production in favor of TV. Though other studios filled the gap for a while, Hong Kong, which...
When she learned this year’s Hasty Pudding show would be set during Manifest Destiny’s heyday, president of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) Erica A. Scott ’06 decided to negotiate some terms of agreement for “Terms of Frontierment...
...heyday of lacquer ware is long gone, and in recent years most Japanese retailers watched helplessly as lacquer became unfashionable and sales plummeted. But one boutique that is bucking the trend is Tokyo's Yamada Heiando, a family-run business that has overhauled product lines to meet modern tastes. In addition to the traditional banquet trays and soup bowls, Yamada Heiando offers slick accessories for the urban sophisticate, from penholders to mouse pads...
...second semester, a Coffeehouse showcasing Leverites.Leverett also boasts an under-used Art Studio (Leverett residents only, A-entry basement), a Music Practice Room (Leverett residents only, G-tower basement), and a Film Society video collection featuring mainstream and slightly-less-mainstream rentals.The Leverett arts scene saw its heyday in 2000, when the extensive but outdated Arts Society webpage was last updated. The house once boasted weekly figure-drawing classes open to everyone, which shows what might be done with a little initiative. According to tutor Nicholas P. Vines, “For all intents and purposes, there is no Arts...