Word: swag
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Finally, the two con artists called on Sabena airline and picked up a fifth bundle of multinational swag. Then they disappeared. Their rented Granada was discovered by police three days later in the parking lot of Heathrow's Terminal No. 3, all-flights boarding point for destinations outside Europe. At week's end it was still unknown whether the men had actually left the country...
...distinctive, swag façade that once hung from the roof of the stands has been reproduced atop the new $3 million-plus scoreboard-only in concrete, not painted copper. Because the value of copper has risen almost as drastically as ballplayers' salaries since 1923, the original façade was melted down and sold. Perhaps it is now plumbing in a renovated brownstone. The playing surface is still alive: Merion blue grass, in texture irregular enough to promise a few historic bounces and in color a nice uneven biological green...
...argument is stimulating. It may well be that Franz Liszt was the first performer to court-and then find himself victimized by-celebrity akin to that accorded a rock star. Adolescents swooning at his concerts; the rich, famous and equally gifted vying eagerly for his attention; sexual swag collected at every stop on his endless concert tours-it all fits with what we know about contemporary life at the top of the charts...
...aristocratic thief outwits crushers (cops), noses (informers) and Establishment nibs to assemble the four keys needed to grab the gold. By subversion, bribery and tricks far dirtier than the king's men ever dreamed of, the ringleader and his scruffy accomplices come within a sniff of the swag, only to meet their greatest obstacle: an obscure law of physics...
...murders and one on murders committed during robberies or other felony crimes. The payoff has been a solution rate of more than 80% for both categories. Police in Portland, Ore., for their part, have a special unit to bust fencing operations in hopes that burglaries will drop because the swag is harder to get rid of. The rate did indeed drop 16% in the past two years. In New York City, policemen now operate the third largest taxi fleet?some 200 vehicles. It seems taxis make excellent camouflage for stakeouts and street patrol and were involved in half...