Word: trashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days a dollar will buy more than 1,500 kwanza on the black market, or 50 times as much as at the official exchange rate. At bank rates, a sack of potatoes costs $100. Some 750,000 squatters jam the garbage-filled streets of Luanda, where many scrounge through trash cans for food and live in shacks. Even a confidential Soviet report on the capital acknowledged its "sense of hopelessness...
...without producing a bulge. Equipped with a magnetic switch on a cigarette lighter to activate the recorder, Lofaro coolly discussed Gambino family affairs with the unsuspecting Gotti brothers. Afterward he placed the tapes inside folded copies of the New York Times business section and dropped them in a preselected trash bin. Lofaro provided the Government with more than 50 tapes over two years. Says one admiring investigator: "You can't help wondering how many sleepless nights he spent knowing that if caught he would get a slow cutting job by a knife expert...
...search of bargains. Thus the sidewalk in front of the store was bustling last week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode off. A few seconds later an explosion shattered the happy sounds of shoppers. "There was simply a noise, very loud, then the screams of the people," recalled a witness. In an instant the sidewalk was littered...
High-spirited partiers faced a dearth of trash containers, and the result was unsightly trash surrounding drunken carousers...
Residents would be required under law to bring two waste containers to the curb weekly: one filled with recyclable trash and one with everything else. The city would then transport the recyclable rubbish to a sorting and processing plant which would sell the materials to industries...