Word: racket
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While America's top two organized crime rackets - guns and drugs - are getting a lot of media play these days, the underworld's third biggest moneymaker has somehow been left out of the spotlight. Neither politicians nor the media paid much attention in November to a federal report showing that trafficking of foreign-born female slaves into the U.S. has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade, and the fact that this report was brought to light in a story in Saturday's New York Times has women's groups asking why nobody seemed to notice it before...
...male fought off thieves in exchange for sex and hot food. It's a protection racket, really," he said...
...Half-drunken fans mingled with obsequious IOP-types and secret service men. We followed Alter into a giant cathedral warehouse where acres of laptops and television monitors and telephones and fax machines made a tremendous racket. Hunched journalists, attached to their keyboards and notebooks madly created copy while mumbling into phones and cursing sporadically; a wall of television screens flashed campaign coverage from every imaginable channel--except FOX--they preferred "Party of Five" over McCain. Huddled together, we stared at this splendor of technology and manpower. Alter flew off to another interview, and Franklin spied his heroine, Arianna Huffington while...
...where two boys, Van (Adrien Brody) and Ben (Ben Foster) are growing up in a very traditional Jewish family. Their grandmother believes that the most salient point in the story of Samson and Delilah is that Samson killed all the goyim. Their father, Nate, runs a gambling racket disguised as a strip-joint. At the same time, the two boys are being exposed to a world beyond that of the traditional Jewish one--older son Van is seduced by the WASPish world of white bread neighbourhoods, frat boys and beautiful blond girls, and falls in love with stunner Dubbie (played...
...squash team got a big bounce of confidence last weekend, handily winning the United States Squash Racket Association's five-man tourney at Yale University...