Word: racketeering
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...NOTEBOOK Thai Tennis Ace Raises a Racket Justice for Burma's Ne Wins
...much it costs to have a proper wedding in Shanghai, or eight years' salary for the average urban worker, according to China Daily $6.4 billion is how much money police say eight suspects laundered in Hong Kong between 1996 and 2001 in the territory's largest-ever money laundering racket 190 nations are now part of the U.N. after Switzerland ended its long-standing policy of neutrality and joined
...show for our weekly tennis match. Message says dog ate his racket. Donny Osmond towel snaps me around locker room--wouldn't have tried that a couple of years ago. Ten to one, Eisner...
...elements appeal to mobsters. But the movies became an attractive model for them only when real Mob life was on the skids, attacked from without by the feds, eaten from within by rats. The Godfather I and II were nostalgia movies, harking back to the glory years of a racket whose best years were behind it even in the '70s. They held up myths of honor among thieves--we don't sell drugs, we don't kill civilians, we don't sing--that Gotti and his cronies abandoned, if they ever really existed. Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990) got closer...
...incantation, two monks strip Charoen of his robes. Given some cheap gray civvies and a bit of his ill-gotten cash and food, he's cast out from the order. As he walks away from the temple, head hanging and dejected, Charoen mumbles, "That's it for this racket...