Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statistics are nothing to celebrate: 58% of high school seniors admit to having tried illegal drugs at least once. But the percentage of students experimenting with illicit drugs actually dropped last year -- as it has every year but one since 1978. That encouraging news comes from the twelfth annual survey on teenage drug use conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research...
...began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned up in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, and middlemen, known as the suitcase brigade, secretly ferried them...
...usual in the hazy area of illicit trading, Giuliani made his case only with the help of an informant. The man who actually fingered the arrested trio was Martin Siegel, 38, who resigned last week as co-chief of mergers and acquisitions for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm and who had previously worked in a similar department of Kidder, Peabody. Known in investigators' documents by the code name CS-1, Siegel had confessed that while at Kidder, Peabody from June 1984 to January 1986, he had been part of an insider-trading ring that included Wigton, Freeman and Tabor...
...ceremonial music and dancing, and the meal following it, are all spiritual offerings to Krishna. Because Krishna respects the sanctity of all life, the devotees are vegetarian. They live according to four basic restrictions, which prohibit intoxication, gambling and illicit sex as well as eating meat. Another requirement is chanting the Hare Krishna mantra sixteen times a day. A mantra, a Sanskrit word combining mind and feeling, is a combination of transcendental sounds which are intended to free the chanter's mind from anxiety...
Students, not immune to the call of the dark, throughout the tunnels' history have found illicit adventure beneath the Houses. And for some students, exploring the tunnels has become a intramural sport. These so-called "tunnel runners" engage in late-night wanderings around the maze of tunnels...