Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand don made headlines for the first time in November 1993 when he dodged hit men from a rival drug clan who were shooting at him in a restaurant in the nation's capital. Last January, Carrillo was in the news again when he disappeared, propitiously, from his sister Aurora's wedding at the family's Guamuchilito ranch, just before law enforcers arrived to crash the event. It later emerged that Mexico's drug czar at the time, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on Carrillo's payroll. DEA agents believe Carrillo had been on the run since Gutierrez Rebollo...
...which has been on the rise. In fact, if the number of teenage puffers doesn't decline by 50% within seven years, the industry will be subject to additional penalties. "Only the discovery of major vaccines," said Massachusetts' Scott Harshbarger, president of the National Association of Attorneys General, "could rival what this proposal promises to accomplish...
...exercised great political influence. Allegedly aided by family, friends and sympathizers, Kansi was initially hard to trace, and opportunities to apprehend him were nearly impossible to arrange. Locating and capturing Kansi became a high-priority project for FBI and CIA personnel in Pakistan, a rare joint venture by the rival agencies. Several times, when agents thought they were close to nabbing Kansi, President Clinton became directly involved, contacting leaders in southwestern Asia to obtain clearance to send in U.S. agents--only to have them fail to get their...
...embrace of its unique legacy. "There's kind of a love-hate relationship with this thing," says Stan Crosby, a self-described oil-and-gas man who is the chief organizer of Roswell UFO Encounter '97 (he is married to the director of the International UFO Museum, the glitzier rival to the Enigma). "It's not like we have the prettiest beach," admits Crosby, "or the Carlsbad Caverns. But you know, we've got to go with what we've got. And it sure brings them in." He is already thinking three years hence, when the theme will be Roswell...
...details about the original Globe survive. The extant building contracts for the Rose and the Fortune, neighboring rival theaters built by Peter Streete, the master carpenter who constructed the old Globe, were studied for guidance. The most basic questions were troublesome. A group of academics was convened in 1992 to settle the controversy over how many sides the polygon structure should have. The scholars voted--14 to 6--for 20 sides...