Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form of celebrity life. When Sonny's outrage at what is being done to Rising Star burns through his cynical haze, he decides to kidnap the horse and return him to a wild state more suited to his nature...
...that I meet with a group of his friends to discuss the war and the problems of our society. I invited them to the White House. The friends turned out to be a nun and two laymen who had been named as unindicted coconspirators in an alleged plot to kidnap me. When the press later learned of the meeting from my visitors, I was admonished by the Secret Service and the Attorney General...
...movie, "9 to 5," concerns three secretaries, Fonda, Dolly Parton and possibly Lilly Tomlin, who fantasize about killing their boss and eventually kidnap him without, all without causing a decline in the efficiency of their office...
...fact, since last year the regime has been much more selective in using its sweeping powers to arrest people suspected of subversion and hold them indefinitely. The mysterious squads of thugs, who usually ride in Ford Falcons and kidnap suspected opponents of the regime, have been relatively inactive. This year only 36 Argentines, compared with more than 600 in 1978, have joined the ranks of the desaparecidos. Critics of the regime say that the crackdown on alleged subversives, rather than being halted, has simply been redirected. Instead of focusing on individuals thought to have terrorist connections, activists claim, the government...
Before the decade was half over, Walt Disney Productions had acquired financially troubled Great Britain and turned it into a theme park, the United Magic Kingdom. In Italy, 65% of the population was living blindfolded in cellars and the trunks of cars, and kidnap victims were accepted as legal tender. Mexico's oil reserves made it a land of opportunity, and streams of unemployed migrant U.S. business executives - "whitebacks" - turned the teeming slums of Mexico City into hotbeds of conservative unrest...