Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happens, of course, lawsuits are old hat for the American Indian. Most common are contested land titles-the phrasing itself has the ring of Indian argot: "clouded title." Then there are the occasional contested mineral rights. And now there are the very popular-here the parch in everybody's throat-contested water rights. In a region where you have to drill down practically to the Yangtze River to bring in a well, at a cost of $5 or $6 a foot, water is wealth. You rarely find surface water without finding Indians who found it first. This arrangement begets...
Cambridge police arrested 10 people yesterday in an effort to break up a major burglary and fencing ring which had been operating for at least two years in Cambridge and surrounding areas...
Police added that the ring was part of a larger fencing network that arranged thefts on order...
...investigation which led to yesterday's arrests began with an apparently insignificant complaint of a stolen drill press six months ago. During the investigation into the incident--which eventually led to the recovery of the drill press--police developed an anonymous source which informed on the ring...
Memphis clients prefer more luxurious locales. Trend-and jet-setters always crowd Memphis openings in Europe and the U.S.; Couturier Karl Lagerfeld has completely done his Riviera apartment with Memphis, including a silk-cushioned, wooden-roped conversation pit by Japanese Masanori Umeda, in the shape of a boxing ring. The style is catching on with professional decorators as well. In Houston, a beauty salon and a cocktail lounge are currently being furnished exclusively with Memphis. The largest single professional group who buy the disturbing style, reports Lorry Parks, a partner in Dallas and Houston's Grace Designs, are affluent...