Word: underworld
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only is there no paper trail, Ali's system avoids bank charges, transmission delays and foreign exchange regulations. All that hawala requires is trust. And that, ironically, is why it thrives in the underworld. No one cheats, Ali insists. And if they do? He looks a little shifty. "The small gain will not be worth the bigger price," he says. "You will lose respect, and for a man, honor is his most important asset." How about his life? Ali laughs. "Yes, if someone is very upset, he might want to kill the thief," he says. "But it seldom comes...
...wheels was still on top of him. His legs and feet must have been over on the other side.” It is this contrast between outlandish actual event and cool, indifferent narrative reaction that makes Dogwalker as powerful as it is. The lurid events and dark underworld that his characters inhabit suggest that Dogwalker is a serious commentary on the isolation and desolation that has become endemic in contemporary society...
Throw in the fact that most of the blockbuster Hindi movies are financed by the Bombay underworld, and you had, from my point of view, a bizarre and uniquely Indian silliness...
...funerals), but for centuries, local culture has had it that undertakers are bearers of bad luck, dirty people whose social status ranks somewhere between prostitutes and earthworms. No self-respecting Taiwanese becomes a mortician, so the business of preparing the dead for the afterworld has fallen to the underworld and the gangsters who inhabit...
...boundaries--national, moral, legal--constrain the border's worst bad guys: Benjamin Arellano Felix, 49, and his kid brother Ramon, 36. The two baby-faced playboys head the Tijuana cartel, which sits atop Mexico's $30 billion drug-trafficking underworld and may be the most powerful organization in the country of any kind. Each year they smuggle to the U.S. hundreds of tons of cocaine, plus marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, ferried on ships, on planes and inside truckloads of legitimate merchandise. The Arellanos are thought to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away, and that's after bribing Mexican...