Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beat with all the subtlety of a bulldozer, white is the quintessential Yuppie-come-lately supercop, complete with a Beginner's Guide to Chinese Culture and Civilization to help him ride out the bumps. In no time flat, White conveniently manages to stumble on an international drug ring masterminded by the reigning Chinese Godfather, Joey Tai. White immediately jumps into action, tracking the drug king's every move with various illicit listening devices and tailing him via a Chinese rookie cop whom White has inserted as a mole in Tai's operation. What follows is a more than predictable series...
...down price movements of IBM stock during the twelve-month period are the melody. When the trading volume rose sharply, the music is stronger. For variety, other sounds were added to the score. Bells and chimes ring when there were indications of insider trading, and surf crashes when the stock hit a high...
...stories told by those who have emerged from this world have the ring of tales by escaped adventurers from a savage land. Danny Sanders of Brooklyn has spent 13 of his 35 years behind bars. Now he works for the Fortune Society, a group that helps ex-convicts. "When we were robbing people, the trick was to get the money without hurting anybody. Now the kids brag about hurting their victims." Danny claims that he has never backed down from a fight in his life, but he is skittish about this new generation. A group of teenagers recently demanded money...
...break in the case came, oddly, in Dover, Ark., in the July arrest of a publisher who was charged with counterfeiting adoption documents. Then last week the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sprang a trap on a mother-daughter team described as the key dealers in a baby-smuggling ring that may have sold as many as 150 infants to American couples in the past two years. Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52, and her daughter Melinda, 25, were arrested in San Diego after they handed a five-day-old Mexican infant to Phil and Linda Phillips of Kalama, Wash. Authorities said...
...Phillipses decided to cooperate after Immigration officials informed them that a girl they had adopted earlier was an illegal alien. The INS allowed them to keep the child because the parents believed the adoption was legal. Other couples duped by the ring have been traced to eight states from California to New York. Authorities say they will allow these parents to keep their children if they were adopted innocently. The Tijuana ring is believed to have smuggled in nearly as many Mexican infants over the past two years as had come in legally for adoption...