Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coke smugglers can accomplish this feat because they have plenty of help. They rely on a booming money-laundering industry that serves a clientele ranging from tax-avoiding corporations to the Iranscam schemers. The system depends on the collaboration, or often just the negligence, of bankers and other moneymen who can use electronic-funds networks and the secrecy laws of tax havens to shuffle assets with alacrity. The very institutions that could do the most to stop money laundering have the least incentive to do so. According to police and launderers, the basic fee for recycling money of dubious origin...
...feeling that the way we clicked off our list of things that we wanted to accomplish didn't exactly disarm him, but it did show him that we were ready to move forward on a lot of things he wanted. He may have been pleased it wasn't going to take hours to drag them...
...Only a respite from the strains of the competition as well as an opportunity to address their internal problems and modernize their system. That is what Gorbachev and the people around him are hoping to accomplish...
...Quite simply, yes. I can imagine that the center of Europe could become a nuclear weapons-free area. The G.D.R. has declared that it would not be necessary to wait for the completion of the common "European home" to accomplish this but that it could start immediately...
However, like the Crimson, the Catamounts havecome on strong of late, going 2-0-1 in its lastthree outings. This record included an impressive8-6 road victory over Princeton last weekend, andsomething the Crimson could not accomplish--a tieagainst Army...