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Word: ring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to think of anyone who could resist the call of today's roaring bull market. So when agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...than sex: money. Orgies are great and all, but they're a little early '99, a little Eyes Wide Shut, if you know what I mean. If I find a woman who can point me toward the next AOL, then I'm a man in search of a diamond ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Stock Market Keeps Rising | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

This is what it's like being Jesse Ventura at the millennium: you're always being dragged into the ring--by reporters, by opponents and by yourself. You're the Governor of Minnesota, and what you most want to do is, well, govern Minnesota. You've got plans: you want to raise hunting license fees and use the money to protect wildlife habitats. You want more state services available on the Internet. You want to abolish the two-house state legislature and replace it with a single house. And yet there are these distractions. You go to a Timberwolves game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Chechens will try to kill as many Russians as possible in Grozny, then retire into the hills to wage guerrilla warfare with hit-and-run strikes into occupied towns and cities. The Russians say they are strangling the rebels in a ring of steel, but squeezing Jell-O is a better analogy. As Russian troops advance, Chechen guerrillas slip through the lines to harass them, even in the northern plains that Moscow claims are completely Russian controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lessons | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Maybe Rubin Carter was a hurricane in the ring, but the movie version of his story--the middleweight contender who was framed on murder charges based on racism--downgrades him to a tropical storm. In Washington's finely shaded performance he's a low-pressure system, illuminated by distant flashes of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hurricane | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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