Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consists of about 200 lawyers nationwide, with the most notorious numbering about 25 and based in Miami, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas. The burgeoning drug trade has spawned a new, younger group of organized-crime lawyers. "The image of the black-hat mouthpiece who can make witnesses disappear is completely out of date," says one Kaufman commission staff member. The new breed are sophisticated wheeler-dealers who help cocaine or heroin kingpins to conceal and invest their profits. They "see themselves as the Errol Flynns of their day, daring and bold," says another Kaufman staffer...
...program in the coming years, satisfying that requirement would soon prove problematic. "The Committee on Undergraduate Education [CUE] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote in a report to the Faculty last week...
...program in the coming years. Satisfying that requirement would soon prove problematical. "The Committee on Undergraduate Education [CUF] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote in a report to the Faculty last week...
...Saturday night. Below, the dejected team members watch ECAC champ RPI celebrate its 29th consecutive victory. A stunned Harvard fan also watches the celebration. Earlier in the third period, Crimson Coach BILL CLEARY cannot believe the referee's calls. Harvard defenseman RANDY TAYLOR sees Harvard chances for the win disappear through the clutches of BLAIR...
...advisories for specific localities. We have problems in places like Puerto Vallarta, which is part of the general problem in the state of Jalisco. In the past several weeks we've had seven robberies, one assassination and one rape involving Americans in Guadalajara. We have had seven American citizens disappear in just the past few weeks. We are having difficulty, perhaps, in conveying to our friends that there is a great deal of concern, in some cases outrage, about what is seen as the lack of vigorous prosecution of these cases...