Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of businessman Q, as reconstructed from police and court records, traces a prodigious feat of colonization and franchising. In Los Angeles, Q and his cohorts made their basic profits from cocaine bought at cross-border prices--typically about $15,000 a kilo. They cut the coke and ratcheted up the price as they resold supplies in outlying markets. Then with expansion came branches and outposts beyond the bounds of Los Angeles, as well as franchise-like agreements with local, allegedly gang-connected distributors. Says Sergeant Steve Spanard of the Denver Police antigang unit: ``We never had Eight Treys...
...staged by a New York-based all-male company called La Gran Scena. This rare--and rarefied--troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 90-kg soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a half-kilo canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
...opposing the Israel-P.L.O. peace accords. At least 48 people were wounded. The attack -- which prompted worldwide condemnation and forced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to rush back from London -- was one of the worst in the annals of Middle East fighting. Shortly before 3 a.m. EDT, a 10-kilo bomb eviscerated the crowded No. 5 city bus, just as it had pulled alongside another bus in downtown morning traffic, blowing body parts, apparently from both buses, as far as second-floor balconies nearby. "The street is being cleaned, and the undertakers are literally gathering pieces from the trees...
Julia Roberts is the oddest of star commodities in Hollywood: a Lamborghini that few people know how to drive. Her soft good looks, easy glamour and megawatt, kilo-tooth smile give her a box-office appeal unique among today's actresses. Yet filmmakers seem blind to these qualities. Roberts so often has to mope and so rarely gets to be her famous radiant self...
...Kilo Jimbolla...