Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Federal agents on patrol often tool around in cars once owned by drug dealers, since law-enforcement officers are permitted the use of confiscated property that has "operational value." But last week the General Accounting Office in Washington announced that it had put a stop to one rather broad interpretation of "operational value" by Drug Enforcement Administration officials in Dallas...
...however, heavy rains and melting snow have turned the Rio Grande into a treacherous torrent with crests of 8 ft. in some normally shallow areas, slowing the flood of illegal immigrants. While U.S. Border Patrol officers in the El Paso sector normally nab some 600 river crossers a day in December, the daily arrest rate fell to 450 last month as fewer Mexicans ventured into the water...
...child fights more single-mindedly for a toy than do some 800 manufacturers and distributors for a share of that market. At Mattel, the second largest toy company, with sales of just over $l billion, guards patrol the R&D building in Hawthorne, Calif., as if it were a Strategic Air Command base. Understandably. A successful new product can mean buckets of the stuff that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader...
Even so, in the few hours a day that Boesky spent at home, he lived in baronial style. He and his wife maintain a costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect...
Cocaine has given Starr's brown landscape a dash of affluence. Ornate brick homes protected by iron fences and snarling Rottweilers are popping up along U.S. 83. Investigators say that Colombian operators are paying the mafiosos huge sums to fly drug loads north from makeshift strips. The border patrol has arrested 1,437 Colombian illegals in the valley this year...