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Kervin and Mills are just a small part of what may be the nation's largest crackdown on drinking in recent memory...
...primary aspects of the crackdown has been a greater emphasis on holding underage purchasers legally accountable for attempting to buy alcohol, instead of focusing exclusively on sellers...
...Authority, established in 1991, has gone on a tear over the past couple of years, thanks to a strong-willed new President and a public that is fed up with rigged markets and insider deals. The insurance crackdown was its biggest to date, but earlier in the summer, the Authority slapped $320 million in penalties on eight oil companies for conspiring to fix gasoline prices. Even earlier, it fined the country's two main cellular-phone operators for setting identical prices for fixed-to-mobile calls. The Authority has even taken on Gorgonzola-cheese producers, forbidding them to set production...
...Lebanese guerrilla movement that has previously demonstrated a capacity to operate abroad and has been expanding its influence among the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. The latter have refrained from attacking U.S. targets in the past, but with U.S. intelligence personnel guiding Yasser Arafat?s security forces in a crackdown on Hamas, it?s far from inconceivable that this policy would change. But there are a number of other Islamist terror organizations in the region, such as Egypt?s Islamic Jihad, that have both local grievances with the U.S. and the proven capacity to operate beyond their home ground...
...afford the social safety net to absorb those unemployed people, and in the context of a social upheaval on the scale of Europe?s industrial revolution, they?re perceived as a mortal threat to the very survival of the Chinese state. It?s that thinking that has driven the crackdown on the Falun Gong religious sect over the past 18 months. Despite the group?s apparently harmless blend of Buddhism, exercise and mysticism, the idea of a nationwide organizational structure to rival the Communist Party?s was intolerable to the leaders in Beijing. And concerns over the social impact...