Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announce that the capture of Pablo Escobar Gaviria is imminent, the overlord of the Medellin drug cartel slithers away. Just last week Escobar managed to elude the police once again after a massive drug raid in the northeastern part of the country. But 11 top advisers of his drug ring, including his brother-in-law, were not so lucky and have been detained...
Will the capture of Escobar end the drug trade? No. Escobar may be Public Enemy No. 1, but he is not the only drug boss. A ring in Cali, thought to control the flow of cocaine to New York City, functions with almost no police hindrance because the group has refrained from using terrorist tactics. It also provides police with information about its Medellin rivals...
...case, the real test of a movement is not how long it lasts but what it leaves behind. The Glass trilogy, especially its masterpiece Satyagraha, will survive in memory and repertoire. As heard on successive nights at Stuttgart, it is an overwhelming experience, a kind of modern Ring cycle whose components make their effect both individually and collectively...
...life of blue-collar America in the age of Reagan: "Home Shopping Club's got us by the eyes/Scrambling to the phone ordering porcelain flies/Talk to the women talk to the wives/Everybody's buying important things for their lives." Hornsby even mentions his presidential target by name: "Let it ring, George," he belts...
...RING AROUND THE MONEY. What country will replace Panama as the world's leading drug-money Laundromat? U.S. law-enforcement agencies are wondering, and so, evidently, are the cocaine cartels. Uruguay, with its stringent bank-secrecy laws, would seem a natural heir. But after Uruguayan officials extradited an accused money launderer and assured the U.S. of further cooperation, cartel financiers began scurrying for alternatives. Among the prospects being watched by investigators: Vanuatu, a Pacific island republic formerly known as the New Hebrides; the Cook Islands, a protectorate of New Zealand; and the island group of Palau, which is about...