At the time, Usenet wasn't the dark, gritty back alley of the internet that it is now.
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But the back alley, with its bribery, yakuza and corrupt influence, is an essential part of the show.
In Shenyang we knew every street, every road and back alley, which we drove through on his police motorcycle.
The laws were designed primarily to protect women from dangerous "back alley" abortions.
But those barrels of used cooking oil in the back alley have ignited a grease war in Salt Lake County, Utah.
"Folks should be educated enough so that they don't buy a car from a stranger, on the street, or in a back alley somewhere, " said the FBI's Dave Couvertier.
When women say we are no longer going to countenance back alley abortions, unequal pay, or under-representation in the halls of justice, politics or finance, the intention alone can move mountains.
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Traders are also doing 7% of their volume in "dark pools, " the electronic equivalent of a back alley where buyers and sellers transact anonymously, according to Tabb Group, a Westborough, Mass. market researcher.
The house sits in a back alley of an area called the French Concession, which was conceded to the French government in 1842, after the Opium Wars, and held by the French until 1943.
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Little did we know that in some back alley of Akihabaraville, a team of hucksters from Novac in Japan were putting the finishing touches on their TV for Skype Anywhere (or something like that) product.
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The coincidence of the diplomatic niceties in opulent surroundings in Dublin and the continuing barbarity in a back alley in Londonderry served to emphasise that whilst there's much to take pride in, ending violence in Northern Ireland remains a work in progress, one which may never reach a perfect conclusion.
"Oracle has apparently felt the need to employ back-alley tactics, subterfuge, and disinformation in order to achieve its aims, " he added.
Wade made America safe from back-alley abortion stands exposed as a cruel hoax, and a deadly one for women and children alike.
The advent of "safe, legal abortion" didn't interfere with Gosnell's back-alley career.
The bill's opponents say it would reopen the era of back-alley abortions.
"We thought we had said goodbye to back-alley abortionists, " said Jessica Arons, head of the Women's Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress.
It's far from the only place to find traditional bites: Dim sum is served in upscale hotels and back-alley tea shops, in tourist traps overlooking the harbor and the basements of shopping malls.
"He brings a toughness, a Boston street smarts mentality, a back-alley edge in a good sense ... a 'if you throw sand at me, I'm going to hit you in the nose' sense, " Coes said.
The lack of a developed financial market has the flipside of making it difficult for the central bank to inject or withdraw kyat liquidity or to intervene in the dollar market as a way of combatting any sharp moves in the exchange rate, as most of it occurs with back-alley money changers.
They passed the house where they planned to meet and doubled back in an alley.
Bullpen catcher Eric Langill crashed his car while driving back from the alley Sunday and was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
They are especially relevant now that advertising is going back to the streets and alley-ways, again.
Unless you are in a certain Cork City pub that opens its back door on a hidden alley at 7 a.m.
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Miami closed the first quarter on a 15-0 run, taking the lead back on a 60-foot alley-oop from Cole to James, who pointed to the rim and then found a way to catch the long pass from the second-year guard.
He led his rented horse down Baptist Alley by the reins, up to the back door of Ford's.
Davis, shaking his right hand after missing an alley-oop dunk in traffic, came back seconds later with a layup as he was fouled by World Peace.
In Chicago, two suspects were arrested earlier this month after police driving down an alley in response to an unrelated burglary call noticed the men loading 89 vases into the back of an SUV, according to a Chicago police spokeswoman.
In the alley behind Ford's, Mary Anderson watched John Peanut walking Booth's impatient horse back and forth.
Back-to-back jumpers had the defense keying on his jumper, so he spun toward the basket to catch an alley-oop, and Felton followed with a 3-pointer to make it 47-29 with 58 seconds left in the half.
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