Word: raiding
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...dime, which means you call in a 'shots fired' alarm to 911. Sometimes you even fire your own gun. Then you wait for the shots-fired call to come over the radio, and you respond to your own call. It's all made up, but it makes the raid legal." It's so routine, says Blondie, "that sometimes we'd laugh and say, 'Gee, which story should we use today? How about No. 23?' You get punch drunk in this business...
...much dough sitting around, you just take more, and then you begin to get used to it." But not too used to it. "Unless you're completely nuts," says Chinaman, "you're careful. If you find 10 grand, say, you take only three or four. You can't raid a drug house and come back and not turn in some money. That'd be a sure...
Massacre in Rwanda After a short respite, the killing resumes: Raid on U.N. refugee camp kills...
...outlawed by the U.S. government, and Attorney General Janet Reno has vowed to continue enforcing that law. But federal officials have been reluctant to crack down on the pot clubs that were created in response to the will of California voters. In April agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Bay Area cannabis club called Flower Therapy and seized 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment, charging that the club was distributing pot in quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers. But the raid was denounced by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and other city officials...
Baseball's expansion teams appear to have already learned one of the fundamental lessons of the game: Anybody with a left arm that can sometimes find home plate is worth his weight in television contracts. When those noveau riche Sun Belt teams in Arizona and Tampa conducted their raid on the talent of their older cousins Tuesday afternoon, both immediately went for left-handed pitching. Tampa selected Florida left-hander Tony Saunders with its first pick, while Arizona picked Cleveland lefty Brian Anderson. The draft was further indication of the triumph of America's changing demographics over baseball tradition...