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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every schoolboy knows the one about the con man trying to sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. But two New Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the bridge and flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Have I Got a Deal for You! | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...wedding at a suburban country club, a casual gathering on an urban sidewalk -- can turn into a nightmare of temptation, indulgence and worse. Recalls a youthful recovering alcoholic: "My biggest fear was getting through life without a drink. Today it is that I might pick up that one sucker drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...response to complaints that poachers were illegally shooting deer from their cars, Virginia game officials purchased a stuffed buck, named him Sucker and placed him near a roadside. The four-day sting operation led to eleven convictions on 23 separate charges. Sucker has proved such an attractive target that he has been taken to a taxidermist to have his bullet holes restuffed. Said Game Warden Jim Bankston: "That's one thing we learned about illegal hunters. Most of them are pretty good shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poachers: Rising to the Bait | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...those incapacitated couples so devoted they will invest in any Valentine's Day gimmick. Sell Valentine's Day Dinners at the Union. Couples could choose from sedate Seafood Salad Sweetheart plates or the more daring Luscious Lasagne Lover meals. Don't forged to stick a cherry-flavored Valentine " sucker" on top of each dish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frustration, It's Making Me Wait | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

...never seen such a big sucker," the cabbie bubbled to my friend and me as we slipped into the back seat. "Twenty-five or 30 pounds. I rolled my window right up when that sucker started to back...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: A Journey Between Bonfires and Sleeping Bags | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

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