Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pain in the neck," said John E. Tobin, graduate student in international law. "I can hardly hear the professor with the racket going...
...shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow, the national colors, to show support. Instead, thousands of demonstrators draped themselves in black and paraded through major cities chanting, "Collor out!" The demonstrations persuaded many politicians to bail...
...there was no glass slipper for Seles, she was still the tourney's top story. Late in her quarterfinal match, foes began charging that the formidable Seles' most effective weapon is not her racquet but her racket: the unnerving grunts and shrieks with which she punctuates every stroke. Nathalie Tauziat of France and Navratilova complained that the screaming was so loud they could not hear the ball coming off Seles' racquet...
...acquiesced and moved into the corner room, bewildered by this woman and her racket-wielding son who were intent on establishing our room's physical and social organization...
...sure what to make of him. By the way he was swinging his racket I was convinced he was some tennis star, the next Michael Chang. That's what you were supposed to come across at Harvard, anyway...