Sentences with phrase «when crack cocaine»

When the crack cocaine epidemic impacted communities of color in the 1980s and 1990s, people like Marty Golden called for law and order instead of compassion.»

Not exact matches

Sanchez by far best buy, how barca sold them, they must have been on crack cocaine at the time round a table when they made that decision.

For a long time, there was only one thing people knew when they heard the name Coss Marte: By age 19 he was making $ 2 million a year as a drug kingpin, selling weed and ecstasy and cocaine and crack on the Lower East Side, right around the corner.

When macadamia nuts are chopped very finely, they are close in texture and colour to crack cocaine.

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

Woodrell's Ozark tale focuses on 16 - year - old Ree Dolly, who dreams of joining the army to get away from her crack - cocaine - dealing family but who instead gets caught in the crossfire when her father jumps bail, leaving her stuck with two younger brothers, facing the loss of their house, and in dangerous conflict with her hostile relatives.

To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.

Nevertheless, I'd say McIntyre was pushing his luck when he offered to host a page for Briffa and repeated his Yamal «crack cocaine» remark in the same post!

Last week, when Norm Pattis posted that Hillary is opposed to calls for retroactive adjustments to sentences for those convicted of possession of crack cocaine.

Anthony Matthews, La Deana Hite and Jeanette Morgan were smoking crack cocaine when Anthony Matthews reportedly accused the two women of stealing his drugs.

Client driving her motor vehicle when caught, searched, and discovered in possession of a significant quantity of crack cocaine, hidden in her clothing.