Word: coked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have been able to measure. There was a big jump...
...Florida coast have sent the drug lords scrambling for their maps. Increasing quantities are being rerouted away from Miami to the U.S.-Mexico border. According to University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley, an expert on the drug trade, smuggling from Mexico now accounts for 70% of the coke that reaches...
...public official when he committed his crimes and that this accounts for the difference. But many experts find the disparity troubling. Says American University law professor Herman Schwartz: "Jackson gives Deaver, who was tampering with the Constitution, community service while he gives Barry hard time for being a coke head." To many observers, the real problem is not that Barry's sentence was too harsh -- he could have been imprisoned for up to a year -- but that North, Deaver and others got off too lightly...
...environmentalists did not win every battle. By pleading financial hardship, steelmakers got until the year 2020 to eliminate cancer-causing emissions from their coke ovens, as long as they take interim steps to reduce that pollution. Electric utilities in the Great Lakes region -- many of them affected by the new acid-rain rules -- fought off a proposal to require them to reduce their release of mercury and other toxic chemicals from coal-burning plants...
Looking more like a bottle of champagne than a can of Coke, Lenkaitis engineered the Bruins' 24-17 victory over Penn two weeks ago, completing 22 passes in a performance that earned him Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors...