But the system is almost completely unregulated, and rackets flourish.
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Rackets in hand, the children began marching in place, rhythmically.
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They have decided to duel with rackets rather than swords.
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With the passing of time, protection rackets turned into racketeering.
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We have gerrymandered our political districts into incumbency protection rackets.
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You know, it's not selling tennis shoes or tennis rackets.
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You will see a lot of little ones with rackets.
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In the aftermath, their militias fought turf wars and ran rackets.
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"People are seeing that rackets are the norm," he told me.
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Then Williams gifts her teacher with one of her precious rackets.
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Worse, many gurus are mafia bosses running rackets in defined territories.
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They play with the bigger headed rackets and it's so different.
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"I've cracked a number of rackets throughout my career," she said.
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She gestured toward her rackets; one of her strings was broken.
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They also ran drug, kidnapping and extortion rackets to finance their war.
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Then they also began targeting local populations in extortion and kidnapping rackets.
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Then came the war, and tennis rackets were laid down for rifles.
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Instead, her face brightens the most when discussing getting her rackets strung.
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But he will savor those after he has hung up his rackets.
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Instead, Mr. Profaci planned to give the rackets to an older mobster.
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Long before the Caliphate was declared, ISIS ran sophisticated extortion rackets in Mosul.
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I travel with eight rackets, so I grab two and check the rest.
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Their daughter would use their rackets and knock balls around the living room.
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"We don't usually go with six different rackets with the pros," Reid said.
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She has also had partnerships with Land Rover, Samsung, Head rackets, and Canon.
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I'd softened up the Mafia's hold on downtown enough that I could now go directly after their corrupt construction business, one of two rackets that they had running nearby—each district offers unique rackets that reflect the local character of crime.
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The already extreme violence, that included rampant kidnapping and extortion rackets, reached new heights.
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Williams posted a video of Alexis wielding several tennis rackets from her mom's collection.
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"Yes, the tennis rackets (there's a) different technology there," Laver, 80, said on Tuesday.
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He'll drop off my rackets so I don't actually have to pick them up.
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Stringing rackets cost $30 to $35 each, with six to eight needed per match.
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This has included extortion rackets, sham marriages, and the use of fake identification documents.
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But she also had deals with Porsche, Evian water, Tag Heuer, and Head rackets.
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But Neto, as he is called, packed his eight rackets back in his bag.
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Standing in his way were powerful criminal gangs operating violent kidnapping, carjacking and extortion rackets.
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The creation is fruitcake topped with three icings as well as a net and rackets.
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From tailored tennis rackets to Swiss mansions, here's how Federer makes and spends his fortune.
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Townsfolk flocked to see the display of autographed rackets, clothing and other tennis paraphernalia inside.
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Another features Chinese acrobat contortionists who pop joints and run their bodies through tennis rackets.
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He also has his rackets strung at an extraordinarily low tension, sometimes under 40 pounds.
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When he travels to New York, he packs light: a computer, phone and his rackets.
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Units became known for Mafia-style protection rackets, kidnappings and extortion, even in Shiite neighborhoods.
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Check-in because I have my rackets, and they're too big to bring on board.
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But the people who know Roland Garros's crimson grounds most intimately rarely pick up rackets.
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Both have been visualizing success since their rackets were nearly as tall as they were.
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Demeaning those commitments as if they were transactional protection rackets is corrosive and self-defeating.
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Because of the construction industry rackets, your rents were higher because the costs were higher.
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He was fined $113,000 there after verbally abusing chair umpire Fergus Murphy and smashing two rackets.
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The war has created new opportunities for smuggling and protection rackets, which the jihadists undoubtedly exploit.
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Nobly, naively or both, Elwood thinks it is his duty to resist the rackets and cruelties.
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When I first started they played with wooden rackets so you had to have more finesse.
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They have since morphed into a variety of ethnic-based militia, smuggling networks and protection rackets.
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Bormann ran the protection rackets in Berchtesgaden, along with the property expropriations and the construction scams.
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This group was accused of running several rackets, but a healthcare scam is the main one.
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The toughest was keeping the often subtle differences among the six rackets clear in my head.
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They have since morphed into a wide variety of ethnic-based militia, smuggling networks and protection rackets.
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Protection rackets for illegal activity, kickback schemes, and the always reliable briefcase-full-of-cash bribe. 2.
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But they also flaunt heavy weapons, run extortion rackets and threaten to kill anyone who opposes them.
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Alongside producing and moving cocaine, the organization also runs extortion rackets, and is involved in human trafficking.
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Rio, where they will play with gold-painted rackets, will be Olympics number four — and the last.
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During what years exactly did the Chin run the Genovese family, and what rackets did he oversee?
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Many have resorted to other criminal rackets, including extortion, human smuggling, kidnapping, cargo theft and hydrocarbon theft.
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Kyrgios showed his displeasure after dropping an opening set tiebreaker by smashing three rackets during the changeover.
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Countless male tennis players have thrown and smashed rackets and never so much as received a warning.
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For example, the tariffs on tennis rackets are delayed, but the ones on lacrosse sticks are not.
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He took it anyway — using the time instead to smash two rackets before returning to the court.
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I could serve 150 miles per hour with the rackets and strings we were using back then.
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My rackets were strung at 80 to 82 pounds, and when strings broke, they would just explode.
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After testing rackets during the off-season, Bouchard began the 2018 season playing with a Head model.
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And Javier does bring in some money by restringing tennis rackets and running a tennis-focused blog.
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But he had caught the eye of Ellsworth Johnson, who controlled gambling and extortion rackets in Harlem.
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Or maybe I'll realize the reason rackets work is because it's easier to just pay the money.
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I started babysitting and stringing tennis rackets right away to generate enough to pay rent each month.
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Not that the actors ever hit a genuine tennis ball, and they only rarely pick up rackets.
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"in typical mob fashion, the rackets ran from Springfield to South Florida and left no scheme behind."
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But I was really pissed and I was angry, and in fact I left my rackets in France.
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The outfit was amazing, and to get to play around with the vintage tennis rackets was a dream.
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Right now, HTC is advertising some experiences that come with plastic tennis rackets or guns or arm straps.
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While Federer and Rafael Nadal are still swinging their rackets, he will behind them in the popularity stakes.
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They are also seizing the FARC's most lucrative rackets – from the drug trade, to extortion, to illegal mining.
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It claimed religious inspiration, at the same time as committing countless murders, and running wide-scale extortion rackets.
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Hidden away are some 21981,21 notable tennis rackets, countless boxes of ephemera and rack after rack of clothing.
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So I collect rackets, sneakers, clothing and other equipment that I pack in barrels and send to them.
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The same goes for sewers, electricity and basic security — a need that tends to produce violent protection rackets.
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He also brought in a rackets bureau, along with a crowd of accountants to track down financial crimes.
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Judy, 56, showed the group a few tricks of the trade involving mini beanbags, which they tossed between rackets.
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In the factory, lab assistants take swipes at rogue female mosquitoes that have escaped their cages with electric rackets.
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Ecatepec is among Mexico's most dangerous urban areas, with various local gangs fighting over drug, prostitution and extortion rackets.
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Many forms of athletic gear for older children – tennis rackets, lacrosse sticks, gloves for baseball or softball – are similar.
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Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a rising star at a time when female players wore dresses and used wooden rackets.
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Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a rising star at a time when women players wore dresses and used wooden rackets.
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My friends and I formed an air band that "played" the B-52's "Strobe Light" on tennis rackets.
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From 1953 to 1956, he was an assistant federal prosecutor in Manhattan, pursuing rackets, police corruption and narcotics cases.
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Rank the most profitable organized crime rackets in Asia and e-waste smuggling comes out in the top five.
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But little attention was given to the ongoing ugliness around prison calling and the rackets established around that lucrative business.
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Some hold tennis rackets or hockey sticks or volleyballs or pose by a swimming pool or on a balance beam.
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There are failures of the justice system, the health system, the official church, even failures of old-fashioned protection rackets.
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One prominent gang, known as the Clan del Golfo, or "Gulf Clan," grew to rival the FARC in some rackets.
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Joseph (Socks) Lanza, who controlled the rackets at the Fulton Fish Market, let naval officers work undercover on his fleet.
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After articles appeared in the Brazilian news media, a man from Switzerland visited and later sent birdies, clothes and rackets.
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Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a rising star at a time when women players wore billowy dresses and used wooden rackets.
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"Well, I'd like to play — but with two rackets, and no one would allow me to do that," he said.
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Wozniak said she took six rackets and 220 reels of polyester string, also provided free by Yonex, to each tournament.
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In fact, other luxury brands already seem to be hanging up their puffy jackets and taking out their tennis rackets.
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It is hard to foster respect for the law if cops can gun people down and run extortion rackets with impunity.
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But you can't make money if you can't keep your wallets safe, so closing the bank usually stops the rackets, too.
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The economic rackets in both army- and rebel-held areas are predatory and extractive, involving drugs, jade, timber and human-trafficking.
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Both women cracked rackets in frustration, but Vandeweghe has improved her ability to manage her emotions on big occasions this year.
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Now he travels with a professional padel bag loaded with rackets and plays frequently with James Scott, his personal performance coach.
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Think: tennis rackets, baseball bats and, perhaps most similar, competition swimwear — those polyurethane-based suits that were banned starting in 2010.
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During the match both players were seen throwing their rackets to the ground in frustration, but only the Serb was punished.
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Once under the stands, Kyrgios smashed both rackets against the floor in a back hallway and immediately returned to the court.
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However, other players who were not as well prepared tried to swat the insects away with their rackets - with little success.
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Crime families, especially ones on the East Coast and New York City specifically, have always worked together and partnered in mob rackets.
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But they have also used their armies of assassins to move into new endeavors: rackets, extortion, oil theft, even wildcat iron mining.
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These kinds of real-life rackets get more interesting the more high-stakes and criminal they get — and Holmes's is no exception.
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Put simply, from corrupt military contracts to protection rackets, some powerful people would simply now rather the current conflict and instability continues.
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They end up being incumbent protection rackets, or in the case of Arizona, pushing an already secretive process deeper into the shadows.
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Just as mainstream culture was making room for the raucous rackets of Jane's Addiction and the like, the band finally cracked up.
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His lifelong friend—Owney Madden—was a murdering, bootlegging Hell's Kitchen gang leader with a tight grasp on the city's illegal rackets.
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Demand for children had fueled trafficking rackets and a mushrooming network of unregistered childcare institutions through which children were primed for adoption.
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Andrew McKeon, Brooklyn, N.Y. The last year at Forest Hills, 1977, I grabbed a few rackets and went to the players entrance.
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I started my own racket-stringing business" — with a used stringing machine procured by McCasland — "and I've strung 20 rackets so far.
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Both women cracked rackets early in frustration, but Vandeweghe has improved her ability to manage her emotions in crucial events this year.
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Until this year with Yonex, she was spending $220 per package for gut strings and stringing three to six rackets per match.
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Gangs that have built up political connections and stashes of weapons can move easily into new rackets such as kidnapping or extortion.
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The finance minister also touted savings from a major offensive against fuel theft rackets launched shortly after Lopez Obrador took office in December.
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All the same, they are armed with decorated rackets to help combat the sea of carnations, pollen, and sand being thrown at them.
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The protesters, he said, were fed up with corruption and the Shiite militias, some of which have evolved into mafias running extortion rackets.
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He was pulled off a bus in 2008, by the paramilitaries who stayed behind to control the local drug trade and protection rackets.
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Mr. Peña Nieto had hailed his arrest in February 2014 as a major victory in a long campaign against the powerful narcotics rackets.
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Giants on the rackets of giants right from first serve, opening with a Bjorn Borg 6-2 63-0 victory over Bob Hewitt.
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We were delighted to wake up to brand new embroidered badminton rackets from the South African artist, that depicting a vibrant aloe plant.
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I proceeded to walk through the clubhouse, the men's locker room and the grounds — all the while carrying my three rackets with me.
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My rackets were in disguise, a standard procedure for Reid's team: The paint on the frames was blacked out to hide the logos.
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Swimming "fast suits", tennis rackets, golf balls and putters have forced all of their sport governing bodies to step in with strict regulations.
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As a child she envied the summer people who breezed into town with their tennis rackets and then escaped to more exciting places.
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During the 2016 elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose corruption-rife regime puts Capone's rackets to shame, ordered an assault on American democracy.
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Beyond controlling drug trafficking routes in the region, they also ran mass extortion and kidnapping rackets, as well as organized the theft of hydrocarbons.
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Instead of rackets, however, each player wears a padded, decoratively studded glove, with which they hit a large rubber ball towards the opposing team.
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In the east, in particular, as many as 70 armed groups still run rackets and fight localised wars with the government and each other.
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It may not be the ideal comparison, but it's like if someone stole all my rackets and I couldn't afford to buy any replacements.
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When I was in his organized crime and rackets group of prosecutors, liberal friends asked how I could work for such a tough guy.
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Many of the 1981 rackets were made of wood, including Borg's Donnay model with the extra-long grip to accommodate his two-handed backhand.
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But a second-set meltdown, which saw him smash multiple rackets and ask a fan for a beer, signaled the start of his downfall.
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"We analyzed the different feedbacks from players," Emilie Valbousquet, the research and development manager of rackets, strings, balls for Babolat, wrote in an email.
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"There has been so much advancement in rackets and strings, but the balls really haven't changed that much," the ESPN analyst Brad Gilbert said.
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As they fell, cartels morphed and moved into new rackets, including theft and extortion of businesses in industries from agriculture to mining and oil.
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Of more pressing concern is the fact that her longtime contract with Babolat rackets expired at the end of 2017, and was not renewed.
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The sanctions against Mr. El Aissamí came in February, when the Treasury Department said he was involved in narcotics rackets from Colombia to Mexico.
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The latter, which included insulting the chair umpire and leaving the court to break rackets, led to $113,000 in fines and the ATP investigation.
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He grabbed two rackets and walked off the court, trailed by a tournament official who must accompany players on their way to the bathroom.
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Gangsters quickly realized that the piers were the choke point of the economy, and that a dizzying array of rackets were available to them.
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It's a tennis match and the Queen is the court, the rackets, the ball, the air you breathe, and the ground you walk on.
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They're avaricious financial rackets — barely about technology at all — dedicated to the eradication of even modest labor protections and the cynical exploitation of workers.
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The three men are being investigated for involvement in a number of corruption rackets, including receiving bribes under merchandising deals involving the Brazilian national team.
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Local manufacturers lost their grip on the world market for badminton rackets when they failed to anticipate the switch from wood to aluminium and graphite.
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Doubles is more exciting than it was 20 years ago because of the advances in strings and rackets that allow for more spin and pace.
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Walls are covered in tile mosaics of deer heads, fireplaces and badminton rackets, and a painting of a digitized fox hunt hangs behind the bar.
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On a recent morning, there were a dozen activities, including ballroom dancing and a kind of tai chi using rackets to sweep and throw balls.
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Nick Kyrgios described umpire Fergus Murphy as "the worst in the game" and smashed two rackets during his second-round exit at the Cincinnati Masters.
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In cycling, Graeme Obree's 'Superman' riding position stalled after the UCI banned extended handlebars in 1996, while tennis' 'spaghetti-stringed' rackets were outlawed in 1978.
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A match that had started with a razor-sharp Zverev playing exemplary tennis ended with him complaining about the light and smashing rackets in rage.
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The extremist group generates vast amounts of funds from charcoal exports and by gouging aid agencies and ordinary Somalis in protection rackets and road tolls.
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Mr. Flynn is still at large, according to the district attorney's office in Queens, whose organized crime and rackets bureau was involved in the case.
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On the practice courts at the BNP Paribas Open, Bouchard was still trying out rackets, even though the season is more than two months old.
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It's not only extortion rackets that are spiraling out of control in Mexico City, a sprawling capital that is home to some 265 million people.
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An investigation was launched by Christopher Beard, who heads the district attorney's rackets squad, and members of the Special Investigations Unit of the State Police.
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The court issued the order after the Bangalore-based Advait Foundation alleged the existence of child adoption rackets involving both Indian and foreign adoption agencies.
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Of course, European gun manufacturers eyeing up Mexico aren't solely reliant on jonesing straw purchasers swapping guns with border smuggling rackets in exchange for drugs.
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Considered a free-spirited personality, he once smashed three rackets during a match and won a final in the rain while playing in his socks.
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The cartels make billions smuggling heroin, cocaine and crystal meth to America, as well as from a portfolio of rackets from kidnapping to oil theft.
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Players use wooden or composite rackets that are slightly larger than ping-pong paddles to hit a whiffle ball back and forth over a net.
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They control powerful factions in Parliament and the military, and some have turned into mafia-like groups that use extortion rackets to profit from Iraqis.
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Russian money is alleged to be at the heart of multi-billion dollar laundering rackets that engulfed Danske Bank, Denmark's largest lender and Sweden's Swedbank.
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Over the years, government audits have exposed sophisticated fraud schemes targeting the program, including extortion rackets, sham marriages and the use of fake identification documents.
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Several hundred suspected scammers have been arrested in Cambodia, which has emerged as a major centre of rackets that have cost the victims billions of dollars.
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That means the watch will be able to better support hardware like glucose sensors and other real-time accessories, like a smart tennis rackets, for instance.
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The American prison system — where phone companies run virtual extortion rackets, and pharmaceutical companies spar with state governments over tortuous execution drugs — calls for sharp hyperbole.
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The rival rackets sum up an increasingly ill-tempered argument over the Polish half of the ancient woods that straddle the frontier between Poland and Belarus.
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Unfortunately, Diamond is too one-sided in his treatment of race, making excuses for black gangs and for the exploitative numbers rackets that plague black neighborhoods.
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Some questioned whether the FARC would simply morph into small criminal organizations that would continue to play a role in the drug trade and extortion rackets.
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So much of it was elaborating on what the criminal rackets in the city are, showing how they work, and showing how they hurt the community.
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So much of it was elaborating on what the criminal rackets in the city are, showing how they work, and showing how they hurt the community.
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Wood rackets, with 21990-inch hitting areas, made it difficult to generate the kind of whiplike topspin necessary to dip the ball at the volleyer's feet.
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Graphite rackets — lighter, lively and with head sizes as big as 110 inches — arrived in the '80s, making it much easier to hit powerful ground strokes.
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A long list of Kazakh officials, including police and customs officers, have been arrested over the years for running rackets that help people dodge customs duties.
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Another show, "Black Widow," a Dutch crime series, is like "The Sopranos," if Tony got whacked in Episode 1 and Carmela took over the mob rackets.
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Several hundred suspected scammers have been arrested in Cambodia, which has emerged as a major center of rackets that have cost the victims billions of dollars.
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Plaza Garibaldi borders Mexico City's notorious Tepito neighborhood, home to La Union gang, which police say is behind a surge of drug-dealing and protection rackets.
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These days modern pampered players plant themselves in a courtside chair and gesture for drinks, ice-packs, bananas, towels, new rackets and anything else they may need.
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But the growing number of consumers doing their shopping online has roiled brick and mortar retailers across the board, whether they sell t-shirts or tennis rackets.
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But if you take all the unnecessary operations and all the unnecessary procedures and all the rackets and the thing, which Singapore probably will, take it out.
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Controlling territory also allows ISIS to run the extortion rackets on the people who live in its territory, which is how it gets most of its money.
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Smart mobsters in this day and age no longer just line their pockets with traditional rackets (gambling, loansharking, extortion)—and some try to stay away all together.
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Cartels with names like Los Ardillos (The Squirrels) and Los Tequileros (The Tequila Drinkers) are fighting there over extortion rackets and control of heroin and cocaine smuggling.
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"There are more such rackets (of baby trafficking)," said Deepak Kumar, chief of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), India's main body to monitor and regulate adoptions.
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It kind of feels like an evolution of those plastic tennis rackets and golf clubs that people started selling for the Nintendo Wii about 10 years ago.
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Dozens of militia are active in eastern Congo's borderlands with Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, where they run lucrative rackets and fight over land, ethnicity and mineral resources.
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The 22-year-old received a $3,000 fine for 'audible obscenity' and a $2,500 fine for 'abuse of rackets and equipments', said a U.S. Tennis Association statement.
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Alibaba has fed leads to local law enforcement about fraudsters, which helped authorities shut down 417 counterfeit rackets, according to a statement the company made in December.
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Their feuds, extortion rackets and fights with security forces make the three countries among the world's deadliest nations outside a war zone in terms of murder rates.
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At various times in the 69-minute decider, the players were left propping themselves up with their rackets, lungs heaving, as the rallies grew ever more excruciating.
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Both of the two most powerful armed gangs - Calle 18 and their rivals the Mara Salvatrucha - run extortion rackets worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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According to The Age, this technology loophole is being used to run illegal rackets involving up to 10 vehicles and multiple employees under a single authorized account.
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As ambassador for badminton charity Solibad, Mainaky last month took 30 rackets and shoes to a village built around a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Jakarta.
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My favorite moment was on the way to Forest Hills when Rod Laver got off the train carrying two uncovered tennis rackets and walking along with me.
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The 24-year-old landed himself in trouble when he smashed two rackets and called umpire Fergus Murphy a "f***ing tool" after receiving a time violation.
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Racket manufacturers have begun using technology to help athletes choose their equipment, but Reid said most players still chose rackets based on "feel" rather than hard evidence.
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With his three rackets stuffed into his backpack alongside his books, Pierre fell asleep on the second of two city buses in their hourlong commute back home.
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New financial controls and better policing eventually brought down the thugs' gold-smuggling and extortion rackets (in the globalised economy, there are better ways to make money anyway).
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Howe rushed out and bought anything he could find cheap — picture frames, tennis rackets, old suitcases — a quirky high-low blend that, at the time, was highly unusual.
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Read more:The most expensive watches worn by 21 of the world's most elite athletesFrom tailored tennis rackets to Swiss mansions, here's how Federer makes and spends his fortune.
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These are items that you can find around the world: the toothpicks and tennis rackets, candles that play happy birthday, fresheners for cars, dolls, African sculptures, and more.
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"We remain determined to break the back of such blackmailing rackets so that nobody in future can use such tactics against Indiabulls," the company said in a statement.
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Lebanon has little economy, but Hezbollah runs rackets — mostly arms and drugs, mostly in South America — and kills people in Europe, and Jews and Israelis around the world.
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Kyrgios was asked if the fine — imposed for unsportsmanlike conduct, verbal abuse and audible obscenity after arguing with the chair umpire and smashing two rackets — had affected him.
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In the 2017 image, two crossed tennis rackets — not unlike the logo for Wimbledon — hover above the stadium, which now glows with hints of purple, green and vermilion.
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Ms. King has donated artifacts to the center, including trophies, rackets and several tennis dresses, one of which she wore to her last appearance at Wimbledon in 1982.
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While the point is often overstated, the Sinaloa cartel leadership has traditionally limited the expansion of side-rackets, such as extortion and kidnapping, at least on its home turf.
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Though badminton rackets and shuttlecocks are as rare as police in some favelas, a coach had set up a program to teach the sport to kids in the community.
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The PML-N fears a repeat of the mission creep in Karachi, which saw the Rangers turn their attention to corruption rackets associated with Sindh's ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.
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As players build their own criminal enterprise across the city, Clay and his own multicultural mob take down Mafia rackets, expose citywide corruption, and manage their own internal disputes.
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After the match, Williams was fined $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and joked at a press conference that she had not yet met her quota on smashing rackets this season.
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Ditto with "Dinkins years" (the "gorgeous mosaic," tennis rackets, Crown Heights riots), "Giuliani years" (squeegee men, Derek Jeter, Twin Towers) or "Bloomberg years" (bike lanes, luxury condos, waterfront parks).
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She had a bad attitude when she was younger, she admits, and there were outbursts at coaches and incidents like the time she smashed five rackets in a row.
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Is he the human tornado who touched down in Cincinnati last summer, smashing rackets into graphite bits, derisively calling an Irish umpire a "potato," and spitting the umpire's way?
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But tennis changed profoundly with the advent of stiff, graphite rackets and strings made with materials like Kevlar, which added a previously unthinkable level of catapulting power and spin.
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These contests don't involve bats, rackets, hoops, balls or any other kind of athletic equipment, but they do require volleying things that have a force all their own: words.
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Bulger, the model for Jack Nicholson's ruthless crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie, "The Departed," led a largely Irish mob that ran loan-sharking, gambling and drug rackets.
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The big Russian, known for taking his frustrations out on his rackets and tennis balls, said he felt like a kid in Disneyland in visiting the Hall of Fame museum.
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The daughter of former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, Karimova headed a powerful organized crime syndicate that used state institutions to expropriate businesses, monopolize markets, solicit bribes, and administer extortion rackets.
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"And now I think with the evolution of the rackets, the game, the athleticism it's more of a powerful game," said the American who works for ESPN as an analyst.
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During the last decade, Tamaulipas has become one of the most violent states in Mexico, convulsed by gangs fighting to control drug trafficking, extortion rackets and the exploitation of migrants.
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Bordering Texas, Tamaulipas is one of the most lawless states in the country, and has long been ravaged by turf wars between gangs to control drug-trafficking and crime rackets.
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The 24-year-old then left the court for what he deemed a bathroom break, despite protests from Murphy, and television pictures showed him smashing his rackets in a tunnel.
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Commercial shipping, oil exploration, recreation and even scientific research are all raising the decibel levels within marine habitats, adding to naturally occurring rackets like earthquakes, crashing waves and tidal changes.
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"I didn't take it," he said while sitting in a lawn chair in bare feet at the TK Spoje club and casually retaping the handle of one of his rackets.
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"I've never felt after winning three, four, five Wimbledons that guys were picking up rackets left, right and center and going out to play tennis here in Switzerland," Federer said.
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Neither the BJP's own pundits, nor the most enthusiastic pre-election polls, nor even illegal betting rackets had thought the party could capture much more than half of Uttar Pradesh's seats.
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Playa del Carmen is close to the popular resort of Cancun, and the area has been a focal point of turf wars between local gangs battling for control of criminal rackets.
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One of the most notorious North-South rackets involves transporting young women, often minors, for sex work in Italy and beyond from Nigeria, in particular the southern area around Benin City.
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By listening to John Peel, hanging around record shops and trading cassettes in his youth, Bullen discovered the mechanical rackets of post-punk acts Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and The Normal.
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Mike and Milan grabbed their rackets and went all smashy smashy -- Mike's form may not be the best, but you can see the insane power in his forehand and backhand swing.
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And occasionally, they get home to Rio, where there mother now lives in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, not far from the favela where they first swung their rackets.
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Although the fighting in Libya has made the situation more difficult for people-trafficking rackets, international aid officials have warned that it could also prompt more Libyans to flee their country.
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Actresses over 40 whom the public considers trustworthy (Oprah Winfrey, Sally Field, Kelly Ripa) are the most frequent targets of endorsement theft; anti-aging products are one of the biggest rackets.
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The unseeded 43-year-old then left the court for what he deemed a bathroom break, despite protests from Murphy, and television pictures showed him smashing his rackets in a tunnel.
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Its bright, playful décor features nostalgic accents like wall-mounted vintage tennis rackets and archery bows, dragonfly-print drapes, platform beds with marine rope for bedposts and child-friendly bunk beds.
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While some set up more informal rackets, such as Lieutenant-Governor Walter F. Hale who was accused of monopolizing the rice trade, others established businesses like the Benguet Consolidated Mining Company.
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But she found the expectations placed on her at a young age overwhelming and retreated from the sport for nearly two years, putting down her rackets and taking up professional cricket.
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At 94, in a trial in which he appeared using a wheelchair and hearing aids, he was convicted on federal charges of running extortion rackets in Manhattan and on Long Island.
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Abu Sayyaf, which means "bearer of the sword", has previously used an Islamic State flag in some of its propaganda videos and runs what is among Asia's most lucrative kidnap rackets.
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The leftist councilwoman's killing drew attention to the growing powers of Rio's militias, criminal groups comprised of former police officers, who control local gas, property and gambling rackets across Rio state.
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Look for graphene to show up in more sports equipment in the coming years; the material can make just about anything stronger and lighter, from tennis rackets to Formula 1 cars.
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Last January, police arrested dozens of alleged members of the Spada family, the clan authorities say runs extortion rackets controlling lucrative beach concessions, restaurants and gaming arcades as well as drug trafficking.
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I mean think of the Clinton pardon of March Rich, you&aposve got a guy here who&aposs an international arms trader and possibly a tax fraud involved all kinds of rackets.
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Every year, corruption in East Africa's biggest economy drains billions of dollars from the state in rackets involving government officials and businesspeople - known as "tenderpreneurs" for their success in winning public contracts.
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What was interesting about Zwillman was that he took a lot of the money that he made during prohibition and his illegal rackets and invested it into a lot of legitimate companies.
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He vowed to radically alter traditional alliances like NATO, turning them into versions of protection rackets, and to tear up existing trade deals and make them more favorable to the United States.
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It included diagrams of the 'Ndrangheta hierarchy, descriptions of rituals, evidence of murders, locations of bunkers, and detailed accounts of cocaine smuggling, extortion rackets, money laundering, credit-card fraud, and public corruption.
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Their connections to local politicians and security forces have helped them take territory from other criminal groups, as they profit from activities ranging from protection rackets and contraband sales to illegal construction.
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Earlier this year, I issued an oversight report entitled "TAX RACKETS: Outlandish Loopholes to Lower Tax Liabilities," demonstrating how clever accounting allows nearly anything imaginable to become a write-off, including alpacas.
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He'd been a prosecutor with a sterling reputation: chief of the Rackets Bureau at the Manhattan DA's office, and before that an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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After one rally ended, late in the final set, they were both leaning on their rackets for support, chests heaving as they tried to recover in time for the next grueling exchange.
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Eunice Carter did spearhead the strategy that brought down Luciano in 1936, reasoning correctly that prostitution rackets in Harlem, and how they were organized, might be the means of achieving his downfall.
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan's Taliban has named as its new leader, a religious scholar known for running brutal extortion rackets and opposing polio vaccination campaigns, promoting violence against health workers across the country.
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Italian Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova said the police operation showed the changing face of Sicilian mobsters, traditionally associated with drug trafficking and protection rackets but now looking to profit from EU scams.
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So Britain's flag carrier could probably have done without parting John Peers, the top seed in the men's doubles competition at the French Open, from his tennis rackets en route to Paris.
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But President Nicolás Maduro this week vigorously defended his deputy on national television, saying that in every position Mr. El Aissami had held he had been the enemy of the narcotics rackets.
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He still generated plenty of quick-strike brilliance, but he also bounced rackets, jawed with members of Zverev's team and failed to find inspiration and the lines when he needed them most.
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A year ago the U.S. Open final ended in controversy with fiery exchanges between a fuming Williams and the chair umpire, smashed rackets, penalties and Japan's Naomi Osaka walking away with the trophy.
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American Williams and Moscow-born Rodina were the final two mothers in the singles draw out of the six who came out swinging their rackets a week ago at the All England Club.
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"In the US, civic education and conventional wisdom tells us that America is exempt from crude forms of power (rackets, networks of intimidation, gang control of resources, even violence like assassinations)," Bratich added.
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Every other kid in school would be delighted, we'd be hiding the hockey sticks and tennis rackets [she used to beat us with], crying because we were stuck with her for the summer.
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Over the years it has taken on various forms, with groups like the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, while other parts of the movement branched into organized crime, protection rackets, and vigilantism.
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The last time Félix Auger-Aliassime was in the final of a Grand Slam junior event was in Paris, where he was seen firing his rackets onto the ground after a brutal loss.
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But sketching stuck with the 28-year-old Cape Town artist, who has become known for her unique thread "drawings" on unconventional surfaces, including chicken wire, coffee bags and, most recently, athletic rackets.
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Yet Father Time defeats all and when the game's current greats hang up their rackets it will open the door for a wider number of competitors, making tournaments harder to predict, Courier said.
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The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) were already assessing whether to punish Kyrgios further for his antics at Cincinnati, where he smashed two rackets and called the chair umpire the "worst ref ever".
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If liquor retailers got successful they soon fell foul of his protection rackets, as did the owner of the store that became the South Boston Liquor Mart, the favourite hangout of his political allies.
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While players fret about rackets strings, diet, footwear and biometric data, Stubley is armed with moisture readers and instruments to test court hardness - and of course the latest weather bulletin from the Met Office.
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Also on the list of banned items: syringes, liquid medicines, kites, umbrellas, luggage deemed "too large and not suitable", large flags, sports rackets, roller skates and other "objects that could cause injury"...including frisbees.
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The black market was the only economy that thrived, and certain individuals made themselves unimaginably rich via cigarette and gasoline rackets, while members of the state apparatus were even allegedly involved in heroin trafficking.
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But even as the mob's time-honored rackets started to run dry and The Sopranos convinced your baby-boomer parents to subscribe to HBO, New Jersey's real-life mafiosos remained a poorly understood bunch.
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Valve knows there's a lot of money in these rackets, and selling skins and sprays is no doubt hugely profitable through its own marketplace, let alone what shady dealers are doing on gambling sites.
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His success has raised the profile of the game in South Korea, with the country's leading online auction and shopping mall website Gmarket witnessing a boom in tennis products including shoes, bags and rackets.
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As far as other iconic rackets sold at auction go, in 2017, the tennis racket used by Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs in 1973 (aka "The Battle of the Sexes") went for $125,000.
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So, two weeks before Labor Day, my father hoisted a four-bike rack onto the top of the car and tucked our wooden tennis rackets into the dwindling pockets of space in the trunk.
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Youth gangs battle one another over extortion rackets that extend to the smallest of businesses, and no one seems to be immune from the bloodshed, which is also exacting a toll on the police.
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Kunal Cheema, a lawyer representing the charity, said it wanted the court to order the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe such rackets, but the court dismissed the plea, asking for specific evidence.
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At one point, as national magazines began to expose the worst of the fraudulent real estate rackets, the industry fought back with an event called "The Truth About Florida," which was exactly the opposite.
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Tennis players have long broken rackets in anger, but no smashed racket has reverberated more than the Wilson Blade that Serena Williams wrecked during her United States Open final against Naomi Osaka in 21986.
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Mr. Putin has frequently spoken, for example, of Russia's need to develop small and medium-size businesses but has left the F.S.B., which operates mafia-style protection rackets, to ride roughshod over many enterprises.
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The accessory bundles include a Hyper Blaster gun and tracker with Duck Season for $149.99, and a Racket Sports Set which includes custom molded and weighted rackets and a tracker with Virtual Sports for $149.99.
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He went through his usual recovery routine but left his rackets alone and went for a walk in the Royal Botanic Gardens and to a birthday dinner with his team for Miljan Amanovic, his trainer.
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Abu Sayyaf, whose name translates as "Bearer of the Sword", has dogged successive Philippine governments, entrenching its network with vast sums of ransom money in what has become one of Asia's most lucrative kidnap rackets.
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Back in McEnroe's day, Lendl and Mats Wilander played similar matches, only without the high-tech rackets and the nutritionally enhanced physiques, and without creating the sense that the sport was evolving before our eyes.
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Tired of being victims of gang-related turf wars and extortion, many Salvadorans back a government crackdown on the gangs who have carved up city neighborhoods in their fight for territorial control and extortion rackets.
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Inmates' relatives said the fire started after the authorities tried to break up a party overseen by gangs — known as pranatos — that rights groups say have long operated extortion rackets with impunity within prison walls.
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It is filled with doe-eyed plastic dolls and many sparkly accessories (including wigs, handbags and green tennis rackets) and each item is individually wrapped in enough plastic packaging to occupy a doll-size landfill.
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Putting down their weapons, Pancho says, would be impossible because the Templarios are hell-bent on going back to the days when big money flowed from protection rackets imposed upon the area's lucrative agricultural enterprises.
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Before "Jimbo," tennis stars had been mild-mannered crooners such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe and Stan Smith, who with their wood rackets and white clothes personified the sport's longstanding culture of civility.
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The Genovese family appointed a powerful, flamboyant captain, Adolfo Bruno, to run the Springfield rackets and, consistent with mafia practice, to kick a portion of his criminal proceeds back to the family in New York.
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Government officials overseeing adoptions said an increasingly long wait to adopt was closely linked to a rise in human trafficking in the country, with two baby selling rackets busted in India over the past two months.
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But as the country struggles to contain ferocious gang violence, it is the threat of attack and the burden of extortion rackets that are pushing more of its citizens to flee, and their businesses to close.
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Auger Aliassime, who raced through the first set, 6-1, in only 24 minutes, initially took the marathon defeat hard, throwing his rackets onto the ground as the crowd chanted and sang "La Marseillaise" for Blancaneaux.
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Apart from rackets, Clough has embroidered sneakers for Vans (to mark the brand's 50th anniversary this spring) and emblazoned a rusted gate (on Cape Town's Canterbury Street) with her colorful stitched patterns for the United Nations.
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To fund its operations, the group has set up what amounts to a vast criminal enterprise that includes both mafia-style extortion rackets targeting ordinary Afghans and Pakistanis and ongoing attempts to kidnap foreigners for money.
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The hotel's Great Hall commands the second floor and was influenced by the 14th century Palazzo Davanzati in Florence, Italy, with ornately painted grand beams that depict geese, hare and fish, tennis rackets and golf clubs.
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After Williams insisted that they hold rackets during an on-court selfie, she and Federer walked back to their seats with their arms wrapped around each other, and Federer said his racket was hers to keep.
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Unlike at Flushing Meadows last year, where Osaka won her first Grand Slam title, there were no fiery exchanges with the umpire, no smashed rackets, no point or game penalties — just a rock-solid performance from Williams.
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A host of hand-drawn symbols dangling from the ceiling — heavily lashed eyeballs, wriggling spermatozoa, streaks of lightning — were joined in the firmament by tennis balls and rackets, hot water bottles, umbrellas and an inflatable killer whale.
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The idea, he added, is to "share information in real time," including between Greece and Turkey, and to enable them and Frontex, the European Union's border agency, to "take action in real time" against the smuggling rackets.
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Tennis in the pre-professional period bred a certain camaraderie exemplified by the close-knit group of Australians — Rod Laver among them — that traveled the world with rackets in one hand and postmatch libations in the other.
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In an all-but-lost era in South Boston, before glassy condos and a showcase harbor replaced mean streets and a decrepit waterfront, Mr. Bulger dominated the rackets and folklore in that Irish-American working-class enclave.
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As it turns out, Chanel has been selling boomerangs sporadically since 2005, as part of its line of sporting accessories, which has also included boxing gloves, skis, bicycles, tennis balls, tennis rackets, surfboards … you get the idea.
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Kyrgios had picked up the initial fine for unsportsmanlike conduct, verbal abuse and an audible obscenity in Cincinnati after arguing with the chair umpire and smashing two rackets during his second-round defeat by Russia's Karen Khachanov.
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That show, with the ever-relevant title "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope," used gospel, calypso, spoken-word, rock, jazz, soul and even rudimentary hip-hop music to discuss everything from slumlords to feminism to numbers rackets.
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These Nigerian rackets now dwarf other types of online criminal theft, amounting to at least $5.3 billion of losses between October 2013 and the end of 2016, said CrowdStrike and the U.S. FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
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It's one thing reintegrating back into society after a sentence for a pub brawl or a burglary, but how do people go about reforming after helping to run a major drug ring or taking part in protection rackets?
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In a press conference hours later, a carabinieri commander announced that the bomb was a stick of dynamite attached to a gas cylinder—the kind of crude device familiar to anyone with experience of Southern Italy's protection rackets.
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Played on a distinctive curved table, Teqball is essentially a cross between soccer and table tennis, in which two-to-four players compete to score points against each other using their feet, head and chests instead of rackets.
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Unlike able-bodied professionals, who fill their on-court bags with several additional rackets, a couple of extra outfits and maybe a pair of sneakers, top international wheelchair competitors travel with extra wheels, tires, spokes, casters and tubing.
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A few years ago, when Redinel Dervishaj, a violent Albanian gangster, was running protection rackets in Astoria, Queens, he had a secret weapon in his arsenal: a New York City police officer who occasionally worked as his enforcer.
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The only time violation on the stadium court in Washington was given to the eventual champion Alexander Zverev in the third round when he went back to his chair before the start of a game to switch rackets.
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It would be anyone's guess why he was behind a table filled with strange rackets, a deflated medicine ball, a speed radar gun and homemade gadgets used to demonstrate his principles of ball revolution and revolutionary serve motions.
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Sometimes the motives are financial: as businesses have come to rely more and more on their websites, attackers have started digital protection rackets, launching attacks and then contacting their targets, demanding money to put a halt to the deluge.
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LIMA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Canada enjoyed the kind of gold medal afternoon at the Pan Am Games on Friday that the nation might normally expect to see from athletes wielding hockey sticks and slapping pucks, not rackets and shuttlecocks.
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Perhaps motivated by the void looming when the likes of 30-somethings Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka decide to hang up their rackets, the ATP is determined to adapt to a changing marketplace.
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Although the dominant theme of his book is rampant police corruption, Mullen touches on fascinating topics like the rise of the Dixiecrats, the war between moonshiners and legitimate distributors, and the business end of local prostitution and gambling rackets.
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Girls and women are raised to be "nice" and "polite," and as a result, they are less likely to argue with chair umpires or abuse rackets or commit visible obscenities — and more likely to be punished for doing so.
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The show is, in a sense, one long not-so-instant replay of that crucial match (the actors use rackets but no tennis balls), with Brian and Russ's girlfriends, Leslie (Jeanine Serralles) and Kate (Jennifer Lim), as color commentators.
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Beyond murder and assault, the MS-133 gang has also been linked to drug and gun trafficking, as well as extortion and racketeering schemes; the 18th Street gang is better known for prostitution, protection rackets and selling forged documents.
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Police blame much of the capital's crime on retail drug dealing and protection rackets run by violent gangs, though the government says at least one of these has links to a national trafficking group, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
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Briefs backing the banks argued that a ruling in favour of Miami could transform cities into extortion rackets, able to gain large settlements from lenders worried about the cost of an investigation and the publicity accompanying even a spurious case.
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It's doubtful the robot would be allowed to compete on a professional level for countless reasons, the least of which being the fact that it uses a pair of rackets, mounted at different angles, to effectively return different types of serves.
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Though his organization hasn't made much headway in gaining control over a larger portion of the drug-growing areas in Sinaloa, it appears to have had more success in taking control of smuggling plazas and fuel theft rackets in Sonora.
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Mr Duterte's reputation for cleanness was challenged toward the end of the campaign, when Antonio Trillanes, an independent vice-presidential candidate, accused him of having millions of dollars stashed in secret bank accounts, running illegal protection rackets and hiring ghost employees.
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We need a doll house to stand firm against our forts and rackets and thousand baseball cards …" He continued: "We need someone who's afraid of frogs … We need a little one who can kiss without leaving egg or jam or gum.
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Last month, Raymundo Pérez López, the head of an association that claims to represent hundreds of informal businesses in downtown Mexico City, issued a public plea to city authorities for help against the cartel-run extortion rackets devastating their profits.
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If huge segments of our economic activity manage to feel — aesthetically, if not legally — like fine-tuned rackets, then the segments that remain must consist of actual work with actual purpose, productive labor that requires no puffery or misdirection to sustain.
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At this sports event, dedicated to the memory of the tennis champion and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, the courts and rackets tend to be small — they come from Net Generation, which makes everything child-size — while the entertainment options are vast.
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Getting serious about paralyzing North Korea's economy also means cutting off its illegal revenues — from terrorist states and organizations in the Middle East, from cybercrime and from the rackets that its embassies run all over the world with diplomatic immunity.
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"It's a little disappointing because in some countries, like the U.S. and France, they get so much help, like sponsors and wild cards," said Albot, who has a German manager and one sponsorship deal, with Yonex for rackets, clothing and shoes.
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Yet both have turned 23 without making a major mark at a Grand Slam and an even younger generation has begun to emerge that are expected to challenge when the game's dominant trio finally decide to hang up their rackets.
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"We had ups and downs, we cried, we broke the rackets, we shouted some words, we throwed the balls out of the court, we insulted the referees, only sometimes," he continued to laughter, bringing back memories of his fiery on-court temperament.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It may be daunting to be expected to carry the flame for American women's tennis once the Williams sisters hang up their rackets so Sloane Stephens is more than happy to share the job with Cori "Coco" Gauff at Wimbledon.
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While the German did not go to the extent of smashing four rackets into pieces as Marcos Baghdatis did during his three-set loss at Melbourne Park to Stan Wawrinka in 2012, it did feel like a deja vu moment for Zverev.
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Its title, "Murder Is My Business," was a noirish bit of self-advertisement destined to be overtaken by events: thanks to rackets-busting and a male-draining World War, New York was headed for a prolonged plunge in the rate of local killings.
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"We have a wide number of organized crime groups, ranging from cartels, prison gangs, street gangs, transnational gangs, and the like, in Mexico and Central America, all the way through to paramilitary narco-militia mafia [and] gambling rackets," among others, Muggah said.
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While the gangs provided protection for local residents and gave aimless young men with no opportunity a purpose and sense of belonging, they quickly became notorious for running drug, prostitution, and theft rackets, and engaging in staggering episodes of bloody urban warfare.
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Taylor Fritz, a 20-year-old American, pushed No. 63 Dominic Thiem on Friday afternoon in their third-round match — pushed him hard enough, in fact, that Thiem vented his frustration by demolishing one of his rackets early in the third set.
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The memo at issue was one issued by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2011 making it clear that the Wire Act, a law enacted by Congress in 1961 to prosecute the mob's telephone sports betting rackets, only prohibits interstate sports gambling.
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Across most modes of Mario Tennis Aces, you're outfitted with a number of rackets as you head into a match, and if you try to return Special Shots and Zone Shots a little too early or a little too late, your racket will take damage.
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Rock Aid Armenia also cut a "Rock and Roll" video, a somewhat-better-than-bar-band-quality version of Really Loud Chuck Berry that has everybody gurning like total goofwads and cavorting in the studio and of course pretending to play tennis rackets like guitars.
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But the authorities eventually implicated the Brotherhood in monopolizing drug dealing, gambling, extortion, prostitution and other prison rackets, as well as murdering guards and rivals, fomenting racial warfare among prisoners, recruiting ex-convicts as accessories and even extorting tribute from John Gotti, the Mafia boss.
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As Nadal's coach and uncle, Toni, stopped in the corridor outside the men's locker room to answer a few of my questions, his two young sons, whipped their rackets out of their bags and raced up the hallway to the now-darkened Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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It has long existed in various formats, from localized rackets to global enterprises, operated by groups that interact with each other when it's in their best interest and compete with each other when it's not, said Dennis Kenney, professor of criminal justice at John Jay.
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The two clerics and numerous researchers, aid workers and police officers were brought together by concern over the multitude of scourges now described as modern slavery: bonded or indentured labour, human trafficking, prostitution rackets involving trafficked persons, and the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people on the move.
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Murray, who was pushed to five sets in the first round and second round, said he needed time to adjust to the slower conditions in Paris this year, and he made the unusual decision to alter the string tension in his rackets to improve his feel.
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While the profits made by local emirs and 'ISIS central' from looting were perhaps tens of millions of dollars, and paled before the hundreds of millions made from oil smuggling, taxation, and extortion rackets, including human trafficking, the destruction of archaeological and heritage sites has been immense.
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William Forcellini, one of his teammates, wilted in the Cairo heat during his singles match, and with nothing more than the pride of the San Marino team on the line, Pellandra borrowed Forcellini's rackets and took the court for the final match, a doubles encounter against Egypt.
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The 26-year-old cut her season short, swapped her rackets for crampons and headed to Tanzania with a friend to climb 5,895 meter (19,340 feet) Mount Kilimanjaro, a five-day expedition in which she scaled cliffs, waded through icy rivers and passed bitterly cold nights.
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His death was in many ways unsurprising — a reminder of the many perils facing the middle rank of the Islamic State, an organization fighting multiple foes on multiple fronts, under pressure from airstrikes from several nations and drawing funds from a range of criminal rackets that can attract treachery.
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They rose to fame in the local and international media, pictured riding around masked, touting heavy weaponry in open-topped trucks and improvised checkpoints, claiming to be protecting themselves against violent drug gangs who want to control routes, drug markets, extortion rackets, and pilfer local resources such as timber.
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About a year ago, the Highley-Gergels paid around $3.5 million for a furnished, four-bedroom villa that comes with a pool and a cottage and is operated by Four Seasons, allowing them to keep the bathing suits, flip-flops and tennis rackets at their otherwise turnkey vacation home.
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I also learned a new thing in researching this anniversary – the name 'Tetris' was conceived by the game's creator Alexey Pajitnov based on the combination of the Greek tetra (a prefix for 'four') and the word tennis (the sport with rackets and the net and the fuzzy neon yellow balls).
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A hybrid of rugby, touch football and the playground game known in England as British Bulldog and in the United States as Red Rover ("Red rover, red rover, let Tommy come over..."), kabaddi (pronounced kuh-bud-DEE) uses no balls, pucks, nets, goal posts, hoops, holes, rackets, clubs, sticks or bats.
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In the interest of keeping the stars and the would-be stars healthier: A decisive-set finish line at all the Grand Slam tournaments (how about a tiebreaker at 12-12?) and better research on both technique and rackets and strings to determine what changes truly might help reduce injuries.
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Throughout the performance, everyday objects and extraneous bits of clothing are smartly used in the transformative process: the stringy head of a mop turns a busboy into an incestuous princess; plastic lobster bibs and badminton rackets deck out the neglectful rulers of a starving nation; sheets of aluminum foil transmogrify into armor.
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There, above a boisterous strip lined with bars, souvenir shops and "zonkeys" — donkeys painted with stripes to resemble zebras, something of a TJ mascot — we found a sleek nine-room respite filled with retro design references: vintage suitcases, neon signs, a chandelier made from tennis rackets and a painting of Pancho Villa.
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"For a while, the Mafia depended on public work scams and extortion rackets for much of their money, but with the economy in such a dire straits here, they are returning to their old drug habits," said a senior anti-Mafia magistrate, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
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A trend we've seen in recent years, with cartels like the Zetas and also the Knights Templar, is that they're moving away from the traditional drug-transportation business and toward a business model which is all about controlling territory and running all of the criminal rackets in the area, from drugs to extortion and kidnapping.
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After 22014 years of war, with the population tired of the criminal rackets and warlords fighting for power in the wake of their jihad, a new force with a reputation for high virtue swept through the south from neighboring Kandahar: The Taliban took control of Lashkar Gah in 22016 with barely a bullet fired.
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There's always the danger that tech like this can become too gimmicky like with the plastic tennis rackets and golf clubs people were sticking wiimotes into after Wii Sports and the Nintendo Wii were released but the Vive Tracker is a solution that really needed to come about and it's great that HTC introduced it at CES.
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A back-of-a-napkin calculation gives a rough idea of the spoils the extortion rackets offers: If the estimated 2,500-5,653 stalls (according to Santos) in the market—not taking into account other small informal businesses around the neighborhood—pay a mere $50MX a day (around US $2.60), La Unión is making $125,000 to 250,000MX daily.
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As a youngster in postwar Queens, I received free press passes from my journalist father for the first nine days of the tournament — taking the subway for slow, pleasant afternoons when everything was life-size, when competitors actually strolled the grounds, carrying their own rackets, to their appointed grass court — no entourages making room for millionaire players.
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Designated an international treaty port after the 19th-century Opium Wars, Shanghai eventually became a kind of global melting pot of the Seven Deadly Sins — what one writer called "a tawdry city of refugees and rackets" — largely controlled by foreigners determined to fleece the town of every copper yuan or Mexican silver dollar it could yield.
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Before her first-round match in Charlottesville, Wozniak sat by the front desk of the club and prepared for the competition not by stretching or meditating, but by decorating her racket face in accordance with her recent contract with Yonex, the manufacturer that provides her with rackets, string and a red bag to carry it all.
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His claim that he would compel Mexico to pay for a wall separating it from the United States, his desire to turn alliances with Europe and Japan into giant protection rackets, his proposals to discard both law and basic decency through extensive use of torture and by barring Muslims from traveling to the United States are preposterous; in practice, they would be catastrophic.
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Only Serena Williams, the No. 1 seed in the women's singles, managed to buck the trend, fighting off the quick and eager young Australian Daria Gavrilova, 6-4, 6-2, in a first-round match that featured many extended exchanges, including one extraordinary rally late in the first set that left both women hunched forward, leaning on their rackets and gasping for air.
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Nearby was a small tribute to Clijsters with tiny bottles filled with mementos from her career: blades of grass from Wimbledon; snippets from a family weeping willow tree in her hometown, Bree, Belgium; a piece of natural gut string from one of her rackets; and a fragment from one of the shirts she wore during her final U.S. Open in 2012.
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