Word: racket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of Graham's optimism rests on the racket of experienced freshman Erika deLone...
...crack down on the growing racket, Social Security officials are beginning to keep closer tabs on employees whose personal computer codes enable them to access information. "This is something that was basically unchecked," explains an agency official in Atlanta. "If a clerk's job requires her to access one or two names a month and she's doing 100, someone ought to go down there and find...
Nevertheless, Harvard's racket wizards were on fire at the Rolex National Indoor championships in Minneapolis, Minn.--making their best showing since 1983--with freshman Erika DeLone and senior Mike Zimmerman falling only in the late rounds...
Playing in the United States Squash and Racket Team Tournament last weekend in Chicago, Harvard's five-man "A" team downed the Mexican national team in the finals to capture first place and avenge last year's second-place finish...
...racket apparently grew with astonishing speed. Saccoccia started as a decent enough kid, collecting coins while in high school in Cranston until he dropped out in 1973 to open his coin shop. By 1980, with the price of gold soaring, the boy wonder enjoyed a statewide reputation. "He was fencing ((buying and reselling)) all the stolen gold in the area," recalls a local federal agent. "Kids were busting into houses left and right, stealing precious metals and lining up outside his store." By the time he pleaded guilty in 1985 to tax evasion, Saccoccia was reputedly a key moneymaking "associate...