Word: kilo
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...incarcerates people at rates four times higher than most other countries. Mandatory federal guidelines require a five-year sentence for a first-time offender individual caught with 500 grams of cocaine. But people balk at the idea of putting CEOs in prison. Obviously this is because having half a kilo of coke is much more damaging to the country as a whole than train wrecking the entire economy...
...relax too. And if he lapses into clichés on occasion (he adores his daughters "madly, deeply, truly"), at other times his word choice attains a chilling precision, as when he describes the two girls on the date of their premature birth: "They weighed a bit more than a kilo, a term of art in our current context." Carr and the girls' mother had used crack during her pregnancy--he had just handed her a pipe when her water broke--and it is both horrifying and apt to hear the babies quantified on the same scale as a brick...
...back room turns violent. As Clan members rush to the back room pulling heat, a geisha enters with the “merchandise.†Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made...
...Honestly, I can't see many families in the heartland wiping away tears as the movie runs out, unless it's for the 149 rubles ($6) they will have wasted on the DVD. After all, that's enough to buy a kilo of barely edible sausage...
...snow off of her boots and started shopping for dinner. Bundled up against bitter temperatures, she had ridden her scooter to the store and was "frozen now," she said. But when Zhang got to the vegetable section, you could practically see the steam coming from her ears. Half a kilo of greens now cost 1.09 renminbi (about 15?). "Before the snow, a week ago, it was only 0.59 renminbi!" she said. "How can that...