Word: setting
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Whites were never required for tennis. But the fact that there was a court and other such amenities, along with a clientele of celebrity convicts like Wall Street finagler Ivan Boesky and Watergate culprit H.R. Haldeman, earned California's Lompoc Federal Prison Camp a reputation as a country club. Set on 42 campus-like acres, Club Fed, as it was called, had neither walls nor armed guards. Its 650 or so mostly white-collar prisoners rose at 6 a.m. to pancakes or oatmeal and worked until 3:30, earning 11 cents to 42 cents an hour (Boesky cleaned the visiting...
...savings-and-loan disaster may be a burden for taxpayers, but it's a boon for lawyers. The federal agency created to handle the sale of insolvent thrifts has set an annual budget for legal fees of $130 million. That's quadruple the cumulative $33 million it has spent on lawyers since its inception last year...
...policies. Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute, accused the industry's critics of taking "a naive and one-sided view of how markets work." In fact, wholesale prices for more than two-thirds of all the oil imported into the U.S. are pegged to the spot prices set by commodity traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange, where the cost of oil floats up and down according to global supply and demand. Though spot-market prices for gasoline rose 20 cents per gal. in the first few frantic trading days after the invasion, DiBona pointed out, the major...
...rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire to control the oil underlying the Los Angeles basin that's making folks murderously crazy. Perhaps predictably, the new case refers Jake back to the dark, terrible and (for him) unfinished emotional business with which...
Following in the footsteps of history, Rush Limbaugh's nationally-syndicated radio talk show set "Bomb Iraq" to "Barbara...