Word: amounts
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...maddeningly for U.S. officials, Colombia's traffickers seem to be winning. According to McCaffery, 80% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. and an increasing amount of heroin are produced in Colombia. Partly that is because of the success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian traffickers, instead of shutting down their operations, began paying off farmers in the southeastern part of the country to begin wide-scale planting of coca and heroin. Data from U.S. satellites indicate "an explosion" of drug growth inside Colombia over the next couple of years, McCaffery says, and that means more...
Just in case a family does manage to acquire the right number of cards with the right amount for their family to reach a desired destination, D.C. puts up one more obstacle. To enter a station's gates, one must slide the card into a slot with a precise force. Tourists, much to my amusement and their dismay, are usually unable to perform this task with grace. Harried Hill workers tend to groan at these naive masses to just get through the gate or get out of the way, but I think the scene is kind of endearing...
Hess said that the differences between last year's lists created a great amount of publicity for the course...
...beer that they alleged Mr. Yoo purchased was from a prior event," Burke said. "And it was clear from the information that came about that there was no specified amount of alcohol" pledges were required to drink...
...they're asking is that they get paid the same amount for people of color as white workers working for Harvard," Laughlin said