Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...
Downplaying the old IQ numbers racket...
With Barnes behind bars, New York police have already begun planning a special task force to investigate the drug racket in the city. In the past two months, while Barnes was on trial, there have been 18 drug-connected homicides in Harlem. To narcotics agents, that could mean only one thing: the battle for Nicky's lucrative turf has begun...
...runaways. Typically, they are the products of broken homes and brutality, often inflicted by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents. They take to the streets, use their bodies for survival and then, beaten by pimps and bereft of selfesteem, live in fear of reprisal if they attempt to escape the racket...
From the trivial racket of trivial crews and from...