Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Medell?n drug lord Pablo Escobar-now deceased-was always trying to kill him. In any case, "the Chess Player," as Gilberto is known, miscalculated on his final move, failing to negotiate the terms of his surrender with the Colombian government. Last Friday he was arrested in a surprise raid on a Cali house. "Don't kill me," Gilberto pleaded when police plucked him out of a secret compartment. "I'm a man of peace...
...rather ironic to see the Harvard women's volleyball team treat some of its opponents like Raid treats roaches. But that's what going to happen when a team comes out of the doldrums. It's all just another trophy on the wall for the Crimson, a wall that's all too empty at the moment...
...sort of sharp uppercut at the nerve center of our nation. At the same time, however, a 'revisionist school' has emerged, dedicated to stripping away layers of myth and metaphor and understanding the bombing in the context of a series of tragic events, foremost among them, the FBI raid on the Waco compound two years prior...
...inquiry into the genesis of the bombing must begin with a re-consideration of the events at Waco two year ago. As evidenced by the fact that the Oklahoma bombers chose to carry out their attack on the second anniversary of the FBI raid on the Branch Davidians, Waco was a formative moment in the unfolding of the sort of hatred and fear of the federal government that came to a head in the Oklahoma bombing...
...Early this year, Bembry flew up to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where he took a crash course in uncovering software fakery. The company sent him home not really expecting that the department's 11-man team would come close to breaking an international counterfeiting ring. But after the raid last week, Bembry and Budds had confiscated a total of $18 million in illegal software as well as $1 million in cash. They had also arrested eight suspects, and are looking for the man they believe is the ringleader of the major Microsoft-bootlegging ring. If only the folks...