Word: colombia
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...destroyed the civilization there, including the most powerful of human instincts, her mother love. The crack itself? The dealer who sold the crack? The others in the trade -- kingpins and mules who brought the cocaine up from South America encased in condoms that they had swallowed? The peasants in Colombia who grew the coca plants in the first place...
...evil on a constricting planet changes moral contexts. Microevil, the murder of an individual child, becomes part of the macroorganism: all the evils breathe the same air, they have the same circulatory system. They pass through the arteries of the world, from the peasant's coca plant in Colombia to the mother's brain in Washington, thence to her fingers and the clothesline that kills the children in the middle of morning cartoons...
...auditors disallowed numerous travel expenses, including round trip airfare from Boston to Guatemala, Panama and Colombia for--a non-Harvard employee and without any documentation showing a connection to grant research...
Less than a week after Saddam Hussein's tanks smashed into Kuwait last August, Dan Quayle found himself on a plane to Bogota, Colombia. Initially Quayle had not been keen about making the trip. Jetting off to South America while war clouds gathered in the Persian Gulf was not the sort of assignment that would show that the Vice President was "in the loop" at the White House. But George Bush insisted that his Vice President go. There was more to the trip than representing the U.S. at the inauguration of the new Colombian President...
...legitimate user's shoulder or listening in on a charge call placed at a rotary phone. A working number can fetch $50 to $100 from a middleman, who then retails it to long lines of customers eager to pay $5 to $15 to call friends and relatives in, say, Colombia, Poland or the Philippines. A single number can quickly run up a tab in the tens of thousands of dollars, which is charged to the card's owner but is usually absorbed by the phone company. Total losses last year from these and other phone frauds, according to the Secret...