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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine, and the wholesale price of a kilo in Colombia plunged from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Before getting involved in running campaign, the bulk of Godwin's experience had been in the areas of protest activity and labor policy...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Research And Reflection At The IOP | 2/9/1985 | See Source »

Truly enjoyable interludes break up the inevitable progression of the story. The most endearing character, Jimmy (Robert Downey), fills a comic relief role perfectly. He befriends Morgan on the rather hectic first day. Subsequently he helps several scenes attain a refreshing originality missing from the bulk of the work. He is an atypical California rock musician, with a quirky sense of humor. The best scene of the entire movie begins with the pursuit of Morgan by Nick's car (the same one which demolished his bike). Just at the moment when you think he will be killed by the raging...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Ruffed Up Tuff | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

...problems of bicycle rider are continuing ones, this is not a new situation." For continues, noting that unlike many other universities, the bulk of student cycliny occurs not on Harvard property, but on public streets...

Author: By Miliann Kang and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Strikes Against Bikes | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...might be called semi-new. The most recent of the pieces dates from 1972. Nonetheless, many of these 26 works by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, will seem shiny and fresh to everyone but dedicated students of South American literature. The bulk of Garcia Márquez's short fiction was written before his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in Spanish in 1967 and in English three years later. That outlandish, exuberant chronicle of a tragicomically doomed family won its author the worldwide acclaim he continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Fabulous World | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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