Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cutter chases drug smugglers on the high seas
...smuggling fleets with a thin, stalwart line of vessels is the U.S. Coast Guard. Since January the Coast Guard has intercepted and seized 779,847 lbs. of marijuana, with a market value of $273 million. The best record of interceptions is held by Dauntless, a 210-ft.-long cutter with a crew of 85; 40 marijuana leaves have been painted on the ship's mast, symbols of previous busts. TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis was aboard for its most recent 21-day patrol. His report...
Eventually, a Coast Guard cutter managed to tow the whale to a nearby boat basin. It listed heavily to one side...
...will work their will. As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Helms will play a key role in the passage of this year's farm bill, and he remains stubbornly set to cut way back on food stamps. The Administration has already bowed to the chairman: Chief Budget Cutter David Stockman carefully exempted subsidies for growing tobacco, one of North Carolina's biggest exports, from any reduction...
...longtime nickname "Cap the Knife" testifies to his reputation as a ruthless budget cutter. His anti-Soviet rhetoric is at least as bellicose as that of his Cabinet colleague Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Reflecting on the recent European visit of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the West German newspaper Die Welt complained that he came across like "a Roman proconsul," and a top British defense official said, "He has a way of dropping grenades around the china shop." Another British diplomat softened that blow a bit by saying, "I'd call his performance one of stubbornness with charm...