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...operating against the warehouse and loading areas, the beaches and airstrips. The traffickers have already suffered major injury because they can't move the marijuana out and it's losing its potency." But there is no evidence yet that the crackdown has made a major dent in the flow of grass...
Flom, a small, slight man with thinning gray hair and a forehead wrinkled in a perpetual look of surprise, seems to prefer representing raiders. He has also directed skillful defenses, notably his "Jewish dentist" defense in 1975 for Stern-dent, a manufacturer of dental equipment under attack by Magus Inc., a holding company that is 10% owned by the Kuwait Investment Co. Flom sued Magus for not disclosing that many of Stern-dent's customers were Jewish and might not buy from a company partly owned by an Arab government agency. The argument was such a successful public relations...
...fifty odds on avoiding a downturn. The others all agree that there will be a recession, but that it will be mild and brief, lasting only two or three quarters and at worst dragging real G.N.P. down at an annual rate of only 1% to 2%. All this will dent inflation-but only a bit. To ensure that inflation will continue to decline even after the recession ends, economic growth will have to be held below the old 4% norm for some years to come...
...Boston I was positive someone had told the police, because there was a barricade across the highway where it reached Route 128. The barricade looked rather formidable to me, but Namo told me he had dealt with them before and they were really nothing to worry about. We did dent the car rather badly when Namo steered it straight on through the line of squad cars, but we only damaged a few officers in our flight...
Harvard officials, not surprisingly, think otherwise. Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, says the plan--which offers a minimum of 20 loans of $100,000 each this year, drawn from a $2 million fund--won't make a dent in a city the size of Cambridge...