Word: totale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total redneck," says Brin. "He'd say crazy, stupid stuff about black people and gay people... One time he said we ought to get all these people with AIDS, stick them in an airplane and blow it up. But if you got up in his face, he'd back down, because he was a punk, like any other young punk you see on the street...
...extent of corruption at a national level emerged last week in a report on the state purchase of grain. Out of a total of $65 billion set aside to buy grain from farmers since 1992, $25 billion--40%--had disappeared. Investigators found that much of the missing money had gone into luxury condominiums, futures trading and the purchase of cars and mobile phones--the kind of graft that makes the short-tempered Zhu go ballistic...
...only begun to expand. Carney alone plans to open at least 600 new stores. To accommodate such whopping increases, Papa John's recently opened a doughmaking commissary in Portland, Ore. It is building another in Pittsburgh, Pa., and plans to add still another in Nevada, which will bring its total to 12. "Now we can get to everywhere in the U.S. and build out," Schnatter says. "We are becoming a national brand." That will give Schnatter even more restaurants to drop in on--and more general managers to keep hopping...
...have spent their shriveled lives missing the Brooklyn Dodgers, or from Boston fans who make bad poetry of the beauty of losing. The Yanks did not lose a series for 23 regular-season series. They were leading in the game for 47 straight games. They outscored opponents by a total of 300 runs...
...town, although the numbers seem to indicate otherwise. Last year some 30.5 million visitors spent $25 billion in Las Vegas and Clark County, including $6.2 billion on gambling, which was up from $5.7 billion two years before. But the gaming take along the Strip has gone from 58% of total revenues 10 years ago to 53% today. That's the official figure. Major hoteliers, however, put casino revenues at 40% of the mix, or even 25% if retail sales are included in the total. (Gamblers spend an average of only four hours a day in the casinos, after all.) Gamblers...