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Carillo and his colleagues may be partners with the Colombians, but when it comes to smuggling, the two groups operate in distinctly different styles. While the Colombians have used elaborate devices such as custom-made yachts, high-tech communication decoders and even submarines, the Mexicans prefer a cruder methodology: stuffing the drugs into the trunks of cars, then relying on a combination of speed, scattershot runs and sheer bravado. Sometimes they blitz the border posts, sending eight or 10 vehicles through at a time, betting that U.S. Customs will search at most one vehicle in the convoy. A group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEIGHBORS | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...People are going to warm to [Cash] and bewilling to join with him," the professor added,citing Cash's custom of "thanking people" and"sharing limelight...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Cash May Be Next Business School Dean | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

...parlaying a Word document into a Web page is a new variant on the old "Save As..." command. This command, called "Save As Hypertext Markup," converts Word documents, including any special bells and whistles like custom formatting, to equivalent HTML code which can be "spun" onto the Web via a Web server (a computer specially configured to handle Web requests from other computers around the world...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: Spinning Your Own "Web" | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...company offers a complete electronic infrastructure for establishing and managing a business on the Internet, ranging from on-line store creation for small businesses to custom business solutions for larger corporations...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Cambridge Company Develops Secure Internet Technology | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

...mantlepiece is irreplaceable, Aiyar said. "It's old, custom-made," she said. "It was donated when [The Advocate] first got the building...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Advocate Robbed | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

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