Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign buying spree has inevitably become controversial. How does foreign investment affect America's industrial strength and ability to compete? Just how much overseas investment is good for the country, and how much of America should foreigners be allowed to buy? What other kinds of control might follow? What will happen if nothing is done to stem the buying tide? Warns Lawrence Brainard, chief international economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "By the end of this century, the U.S. may have the most modern manufacturing sector in the world, but it won't own it." Says Democratic Representative John Bryant...
Currently serving a two-year term in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Levine detailed for the court a spending spree that lasted from 1980 until his arrest last year. He paid $450,000 to renovate his eight-room Park Avenue apartment and bought his wife a $15,750 diamond necklace. What about the money unaccounted for? Levine says he lost part of it, about $200,000, while gambling during 27 vacations in the Bahamas. His luck, it seems, began to run out long before investigators caught up with...
...murders are believed to be the work of a single suspect, quickly dubbed the "Green River Killer," who appears to have ended his monstrous spree in March 1984. Over 20 months, the killer may have murdered as many as 46 victims, since nine local women remain missing and are presumed dead by his hand. By contrast, John Wayne Gacy, convicted in 1980 of more murders than anyone else in U.S. history, was found guilty of killing 33 boys and young...
However, people at Harvard may be all too willing to write off Razo as an isolated case. Officials are already quick to point out that Razo's alleged crime spree began before he entered Harvard and continued while the Kirkland House resident was on vacation. What a clever way to wash our collective hands of the whole matter...
Harvard's poor state of race relations stand at the center of the Razo case. It appears that Razo's alleged crime spree stemmed from an effort to prove to his friends his loyalty to his Hispanic background. Why? Because at Harvard there is little or no practical way for a minority to reconcile his background with the WASPy, preppy Harvard experience. As some do here, Razo tried to be two different people in two different worlds. When in Cambridge he tried to be one more anonymous Harvard student. When in California, he did as the Hispanic homeboys...