Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambition, savagery and betrayal," not to mention careerism and bureaucratic incompetence. To lure high-level drug smugglers, the DEA set up a dummy money-laundering corporation in suburban Miami Lakes that was initially called Dean International Investments, Inc. Although he was only a hired hand, Darias more or less ran the operation while his handlers feuded with one another and scuffled for promotions. The bumbling agents, among other foul-ups, managed to lose a key recording of Darias' conversation with a suspect, left piles of money lying around in closets and fell hopelessly behind in keeping official records...
...witness -- is told in a kind of tired, cryptic shorthand. Darias had the street-smarts to tape his agents as well as his marks. McClintick, who was widely praised for his 1982 Hollywood expose, Indecent Exposure, uses the transcripts of those conversations in such numbing detail that he seemingly ran out of pages to conclude the narrative properly...
...didn't take long for the vultures to get wind of the financial collapse of Nutri/System. Heavy debt forced the diet center to close its headquarters and 283 company-owned weight-loss clinics. As Nutri/System struggled to find a buyer, its competitors ran ads to lure the company's customers. Jenny Craig offered to sign up abandoned calorie counters at "no additional service fee," while stressing that it is "a debt-free, $500 million company." Weight Watchers told Nutri/System customers, "Don't worry." At week's end Heico Acquisitions of Chicago tentatively agreed to manage the firm while seeking...
...marries in college. Part of it derives from the go-ahead conviction of Rob Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker. It's an incautious conceit, and some of its effectiveness may derive from the recent, equally sudden, equally premature death of Lee's son Brandon on a film set. One begins to think that perhaps the family actually...
...first billion, BGH ran into a major roadblock: Rifkin. The activist has campaigned against everything from the space shuttle to beef consumption, but his single biggest beef is about genetically engineered food products...