Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon enough for FBI agents. Even top officials on the agency's seventh floor have given Sessions the freeze-out. "It's so cold up there you can hang meat," said one agent. He's no help outside the building either, alumni agents contend. Says former senior bureau official Tom Kelley: "He is dragging down the reputation of the organization every day he stays there." You wouldn't have to be an FBI agent to get the hint...
...somehow, Narcissus wasn't a meat market like Revere Beach or Axis--or, for that matter, Pamplona. You could relax at Narcissus...
...Thomas. Burger King, which saw its Weight Watchers line of meals flop, has enlarged its fish sandwich 45% and rechristened it "the Big Fish." Kentucky Fried Chicken, after a disastrous experience with skin-free chicken, is having far more success with Popcorn Chicken II, a breaded, calorie-packed, dark-meat appetizer...
...safety valve is Cuba's surging black market, conducted in both pesos and dollars that often come from relatives living in the U.S. In Havana vendors go door to door selling meat and milk at 40 to 50 times the official cost. Imported TVs, priced at $150 apiece, slip out the back door of government warehouses for an additional $10 bribe. Illegal antennas bought with dollars pick up U.S. channels. So pervasive is the dollar that workers in the beach resort of Varadero are now permitted to use their dollar tips to buy imported goods at an experimental store. Later...
...does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned $2 a week and she could not support her baby daughter. Now married to a Serbian pimp, she says, "So many Ukrainian women would welcome the chance I am getting...