Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bombay explosions were masterminded by foreign forces, possibly Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence. Piecing together a car bomb that exploded in the basement garage of the Air India skyscraper, Bombay police traced the ownership of vehicles used in the attacks to one of the city's main Muslim underworld families, the Memons. The six Memon brothers fled to Dubai shortly before the explosions, but police managed to arrest two hirelings who were allegedly paid $167 to plant some of the bombs...
Government documents and microforms currently occupy a dank, cramped space in Lamont's sub-sub-basement. Twenty-five years ago, gov does were temporarily placed in this library underworld. Misplaced University priorities left it there for more than a decade...
...John the Baptist has faithfully served parishoners, visitors and refugees for over 150 years by keeping its doors open around the clock. Like city parks that have given way to the nefarious dealings of the underworld, St. John's original purpose of sheltering those in need of peace has been lost in the shuffle...
...store's "bargain basement" underworld for garments, I discover extensively used Levis for only...
...HONES his rough craft by sketching a bowl of fruit or a reclining nude. The would-be novelist pulls a diary from her dresser and changes the names. But ambitious young filmmakers, with a fondness for old genres and an eye to the box office, take tours of the underworld. When in doubt, go with the gangsters. Not every first-time director can make Citizen Kane; the budget, let alone the vision, would be out of reach. But a Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film about a brotherhood of toughs in Manhattan's Little Italy, is something...