Word: racket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lanka, his government came under unprecedented attack in the national Parliament. Members shouted insults at one another and almost came to blows. The opposition staged sit-downs in the well of the lower house, shoving Gandhi supporters, grabbing the notes of a Cabinet minister and creating such a shrill racket that sessions had to be repeatedly adjourned. The dissenting M.P.s, who are outnumbered 4 to 1 by Gandhi's Congress (I) Party, were trying to stop the creation of a parliamentary committee to investigate a government contract with the Bofors arms company of Sweden, which has admitted paying some...
...Noriega and a return to democracy. The demonstrators ; constructed barricades of burning rubbish and tires, and fought pitched battles with squads of riot police nicknamed "Dobermans." At noon and 6 p.m. each day middle-class protesters hung out of their windows, waving white handkerchiefs and making an antigovernment racket by beating on pots and pans...
...that noise is not a power saw in full throttle. The 17- year cicadas are here again, creating a racket and messing up backyards...
...Business schools have this nice racket where every time someone who has graduated from the school gets in trouble, people will throw money at the problem," Vogel says. "I think it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I think it's sort of a parody--the notion of throwing money at problems went out with the sixties. I think that schools are setting themselves up to be made fools...
PERCY HAS a computer in his head, apparently. More unfolds the water-supply plot with the symmetry and cunning of a Creole Hercule Poirot. But agents more intimidating than Bionic Bridge players lie at the end of the molar-mystery. More discovers a kiddie-porn racket which Percy depicts too graphically for my taste...