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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most rare-metals traders, however, abandon any pretense of legitimacy and begin to act more like characters in a Hollywood thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Some have worried that the lovable Joe Pesci will provoke students into going out and trying to find their very own curmudgeonly-but-cute Homeless Person to bring a little wit and wisdom to drab dorm rooms (and of course to fill all that extra space we have). Only time will tell...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...committee seeking to fill two top positions at the Semitic Museum has completed its search and will announce its selections next week...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Search Completed | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...Mike hasn't looked like a freshman or acted like a freshman," senior captain Mike Giardi said. "He's acted like a baseball player. He had a role to fill and he has stepped up to fill it. He's hit the ball very well and done a great job in the field...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Freshman Hochanadel Making His Presence Felt | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

However, the intimate environment also submits the performers to closer scrutiny. At such a close distance, dead time on stage is magnified and awkward and gestures meant to fill in the spaces appear contrived. While one character is singing a solo, the other singers to not seem to know what to do with themselves, or to how to fit in, albeit discreetly, with the rest of the scene...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Gossamer Fairy Wings, Pomp and Cricumstance | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

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