Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat: the YAKUZA -- Japanese mobsters. An estimated 100,000 yakuza in Japan rake in some $10 billion a year from narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking. As the gangs channel that cash into legitimate investments in the U.S. and Europe, the FBI will be hard pressed to decipher the money trail. One reason: money laundering is not a crime in Japan, so the mobsters can operate through shell corporations without the kind of close scrutiny at home that hampers crooks in other countries -- and provides invaluable help to American law enforcement...
Jerry Brown's colorful career before he arrived on the presidential trail in 1992 speaks for itself. Besides the time off, he had spent nearly his entire adult life in the political arena--at times the upstart, at times the entrenched incumbent, but always a politician...
...trail of misfortune began with the team's 1990 Spring Break trip to Houston...
...innovative solutions to what ails the country and the world? Well, stroll through your local bookstore and think again: no fewer than seven new books on the Kennedy assassination have recently been published. Several have made it to the best-seller lists, where they joined two paperbacks: On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire by Jim Marrs, both of which inspired Oliver Stone's film...
...Canterbury Tales. Edmond, a normal 1950s farm boy, drifts to sleep as his mother reads to him from an abridged version of the 13th century classic--undoubtedly a staple in barnyards across the nation. Understandably disoriented, the boy imagines himself into the body of a whiny kitten on the trail of modernized Chanticleer, Chaucer's rooster who makes the morning...