Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editor also acknowledged that the story's contention that crack smoking in the inner city can be traced to a single Nicaraguan drug ring (Blandon was called "the Johnny Appleseed of crack") was an "oversimplification" and ignored evidence that the crack epidemic was a "complex phenomenon that had more than one origin." Finally, Ceppos admitted, the Mercury News "did not have proof" that top CIA officials knew the contras were getting money from the L.A. drug connection. "If we were to publish 'Dark Alliance' today," he said, "it would be edited differently. It would state fewer conclusions as certainties...
...array of barbecue books, accessories and top-of-the-line grills that really make you earn that "World's Greatest Chef" apron. Viking, for example, offers high-end gas grills up to 65 in. wide (in case you're entertaining the U.S. Army), fully equipped with side burners, wok ring and built-in smoker system, for a cool $4,500. Another nifty piece of equipment (for less than $400) is a smoker called the Big Green Egg. This ceramic oval, based on the traditional Japanese cooker called a kamado, uses no water yet keeps food moist and can smoke...
...everything from the way Americans work to the nature of defense policies. The cold war's demise has helped reduce the federal deficit, and thus interest rates, by shifting dollars away from military spending. At the same time, converts to capitalism have craved American products, enabling U.S. companies to ring up rising sales from Russia to Chile. With the whole world eager for American computers, cars and corn, U.S. exports reached a record $611 billion in 1996 and have been outstripping that pace this year...
...industrial manufacturers that ring Ross County, the challenge is to convert the old economy to the new, which often means better profits but less hiring. National City Bank of Columbus surveyed 50 companies in the county and found that they projected $165 million in investment over the next three years but a net loss in new jobs. Workers who can't keep up with changing technology are finding fewer and fewer plants that will hire them: they don't want the $5.50-an-hour jobs, but they don't have the skills for the $12-an-hour ones. Richard Rahrle...
...fully recreate the sparkling wit and bitter undertones which make Parker's stories so memorable. Instead of allowing the lines in each scene to build up toward a devastatingly ironic conclusion, the show went for more regular laughs. In most scenes, this broader comic approach didn't seem to ring true with the sharp and often sarcastic dialogue...