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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In fact, the smuggling industry has been so effective that cocaine prices might have fallen further. But the entrepreneurial response among street-level dealers was to begin moving crack. The smokable, highly addictive form of the drug has increased demand and sales volume.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

The new projections of the cocaine supply, which still amount to guesswork, nonetheless indicate that the Government's longtime effort at interdicting shipments has been largely ineffective. In fact, smugglers have become so efficient and so numerous that since 1981 the median national retail price of cocaine has declined from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Lately cocaine prices have increased in a few cities, but experts on both sides of the law see no close connection between enforcement efforts and price levels. In Miami, the main gateway for drug smuggling, the cost of a kilo has jumped 44% in the past two months, to as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

A little too quickly, it seems. According to a report by the Energy Department's inspector general made public last week, the DOE not only failed to locate the missing tritium but never adequately addressed the possibility that the gas was stolen. In a sharply worded statement that raises questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium Puzzle | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Until recently, it was the problem of tritium replenishment that concerned most nuclear experts. Last year the DOE was forced to shut down its only source of tritium, the aging Savannah River nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina, when the reactors there developed cracks and other safety problems. The risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium Puzzle | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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