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C17H21NO4. A derivative of Erythroxylon coca. Otherwise known as cocaine, coke, C, snow, blow, toot, leaf, flake, freeze, happy dust, nose candy, Peruvian, lady, white girl. A vegetable alkaloid derived from leaves of the coca plant. Origin: eastern slopes of the Andes mountains. Availability: Anywhere, U.S.A. Cost: $2,200 per oz., five times the price of gold...
...points last week, earning Harvard about $3.25 million. Coca-Cola gained a point, adding roughly $100,000 to Harvard's portfolio value. Kodak's gain of 2 7/8 offset the near-$700,000 loss caused by Xerox's 2 1/2-point decline. And AT&T's additional 1 3/4 points netted Harvard about $1.5 million...
Only a few companies check job seekers with anything like the thoroughness of the FBI. One is Coca-Cola, which may spend up to six months examining all the college and occupational data submitted by an applicant. Most other firms use more informal, and often inadequate, methods. They depend primarily on the savvy of executives doing job interviews, or the corporate personnel department, to catch cheaters. Polaroid verifies college claims only for recent graduates. A personnel director, Donald Fronzaglia, insists that few people can bluff their way into the company's high-technology jobs...
...find out. The subsequent coup brought to power a cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With the Bolivian mafia so pervasive and well-connected, any thought of internal drug enforcement would be preposterous...
...million emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with U.S. demands in hopes of achieving formal recognition and the accompanying economic support. Notably absent from U.S. demands, however, is reference to the extensive political repression and human rights violations of the Garci "Meza" regime--which clearly are not ameliorated by cosmetic...