Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first of a planned three-volume Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang ($50), 1,080 pages teeming with more than 20,000 entries and etymologies, along with an illuminating survey. Volume I runs from a (as in a pig's a) through g (as in gytch, v., to steal); the second installment is due in 1996, the third in 1997 (although this sort of timetable tends to be iffy...
...other hand, Wall Street crooks -- almost all white -- have a lock on high-class felonies that pay off big with minimum risk. Some of them have managed to steal millions, hire expensive lawyers, make deals with the government to squeal on their co-conspirators, and get off with no more than a fine and community service. The few who actually go to jail serve their terms in relatively comfortable minimum-security prisons, get out early for good behavior and are often left with fortunes. Former junk-bond baron Michael Milken served only two years of a 10-year sentence...
...long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap on the wrist from the courts and walk away with millions. Blacks will have secured a new civil right: the equal opportunity to steal big-time, just like the white guys...
...they might not win the Cup and New Yorkers realize that. However, if you followed the words of Mr. Shaughnessy, who also happened to trash the city of St. Louis when he though they would steal the New England Patriots (zero Super Bowl wins), you would think all New Yorkers were talking about the Rangers as already having...
...wild card in the mix is Colin Powell. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been writing a book, making carefully chosen speaking engagements and keeping his profile low. Top G.O.P. operatives fantasize out loud about a Powell run, knowing the former general would steal votes from Clinton's thin base of minorities, women and trade unionists. "If Powell wanted the nomination," said a G.O.P. strategist, "he probably could get it." No one is saying that about Dan Quayle...