Word: makeing
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Ducc's prison diagnostic-evaluation sheet notes that he suffers "low self- esteem." Ducc says that belonging to a gang is about obtaining "respect." Respect and disrespect make up the reigning ethos of the streets. Kids seek respect by joining a gang, then prove themselves by punishing someone outside the gang for an act of disrespect. In Los Angeles you "dis" a rival gang by uttering an irreverent nickname; "cheese toes" is a slang word for Crips and a sure way of provoking a gun battle...
...housing units by the end of the year. Moreover, with unemployment already running at 9.3%, Israel is ill-prepared to find work for all the immigrants. In the sciences alone, some 60,000 Soviets are expected to arrive within the next three years. Israeli universities can make room for perhaps 120 of them. Even the country's high-tech firms cannot absorb so many. "We've got 2,000 resumes in desk drawers from top-notch Soviet scientists," says a spokesman for a Jerusalem research-and-development firm. "But we can hire only...
...your own." The summer he turned ten, Chuckie came upon three teenagers in ski masks hijacking a plumber's van. He impulsively flung himself into the back of the truck; after the hijackers crashed the van and set it on fire, Chuckie helped pour gasoline on the wreck to make it burn faster. He was operating in strict accordance with I.R.A. guidelines, but his smile betrays his outrageous good fortune. "They let ya burn...
...carried out a mass roundup of suspects -- and it was marked with blazing bonfires in every Catholic neighborhood. For weeks, the kids had been preparing for it, collecting wood, tires, old furniture, anything not nailed down. That afternoon the children had also been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids still had nearly 1,000 hidden away. "Enough to last the night," as one 17-year-old, a ski mask tucked in his back pocket, cheerfully...
Trump's search for cash is proving painful because the economic conditions that fueled his juggernaut have changed sharply. The slumping Northeast economy has undermined real-estate values, so that many of Trump's properties are worth far less than he estimated when he borrowed against them to make other purchases. Real-estate experts believe that if Trump were to sell the Plaza Hotel, which he bought in 1988 for $400 million and spent at least $25 million refurbishing, he could lose millions on the investment...