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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third major drug-money % laundering indictment in the precious-metals and diamond industry in as many years. The first phase of what the Federal Government calls Operation Polar Cap involved the 1988 breakup of a $1 billion money-laundering scheme for the Medellin cartel through a Los Angeles jewelry mart. "Saccoccia was in a position to step right in after we knocked out Polar Cap One," says U.S. Attorney Lincoln Almond of Rhode Island. "We were onto him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: All That Glitters . . . | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...seen is whether it can come even close to Jackson's 1982 Thriller, which sold 48 million copies worldwide. His label, Sony's Epic division, is coaxing customers with a huge promotional effort. Twin Peaks director David Lynch filmed a trailer playing in movie theaters and on TV. K Mart outlets are pushing the album in half a dozen locations in each store. Working against the hoopla: mixed reviews like Daily Variety's downbeat verdict that "this album won't be the economic miracle the industry is waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Will Michael Call the Tune? | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

This total Gapification is the self-assertion of the middle classes. Gap clothes are inexpensive by Vogue standards, but not K-Mart's. Gapified food is not Le Cirque, but it is a conscious step above fast food. It is the culture of the Bush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The GAPification of America | 11/12/1991 | See Source »

...Glock 17, the same model that George Hennard had used two days earlier in his massacre of 23 people in Killeen, 175 miles north of Houston. I called Carter's Country, a gun store, first. They did not carry it but suggested several stores, including Wal-Mart. I decided to try the chain but struck out at the first Wal-Mart I visited. "I don't stock them," said the salesman. "This is a cheap-gun neighborhood." He suggested another outlet, and a customer-service representative dialed the number and handed me the receiver. I was told I would need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Bought a Gun in 40 Minutes | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...driver's license, so I retrieved it from the car. He compared it with the information on the form, filled in his portion of the Firearms Transaction Record and rang up the sale. As the manager walked me out, he told me that two months ago, Wal-Mart had changed its policy and now required that ammunition be sold separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Bought a Gun in 40 Minutes | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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