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And if you see the Robinsin their dirty orange vestspatrolling the yard like thugs,
President Clinton's first national security advisor, Anthony Lake, had retained from the Bush administration the staffer who dealt with crime, narcotics, and terrorism (a portfolio often known as "drugs and thugs"), the veteran civil servant Richard Clarke.
Black players feel that white owners don't respect them and are treating them as ghetto thugs who don't deserve their high salaries.
Melancholy, Yukawa heads to a bar, gets drunk, and on his way home scuffles with some thugs, who beat him up.
Q: How does Betty Loren-Maltese propose to round up these young thugs?