Word: posh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three brothers of Medellin's Ochoa family -- has not gone as well as he or the nation had hoped. Since Mob hit men assassinated presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in August and ignited Barco's offensive, the leaders of Colombia's coke cartels have gone into hiding, forfeiting posh estates and bank accounts; some law- enforcement officials believe that the drug princes have even undergone plastic surgery. Nevertheless, Gacha and company remain immensely powerful, with their pipeline to the U.S. merely dented and their profits still enormous. And in the past two weeks they have demonstrated that they...
...faced a kindergartner's gun: "Whatever is out on the street seeps into the schools." Violence, however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little Rock and Virginia Beach...
...made," announces the pretty blond co-anchor. "And verbal judo on the traffic stop: how you can defuse a volatile situation," intones her handsome male partner over a videotape clip of a police officer approaching a car. To the beat of trendy theme music, the camera pans the posh living-room stage set -- complete with sofas, coffee table and potted plants -- before zooming in again on the two radiant hosts...
CALIFORNIANS and graduates of posh suburban high schools are guilty of popularizing one of Madison Avenue's most banal advertising campaigns...
...talking about Club Med--you know, the posh resort chain that bills itself the "antidote to civilization," where decadent New York singles trade in dollars at the beginning of their stays for the clever, back-to-nature currency of beads...