Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 1961, admitted that the company had suspended him after accusing him of feeding bad news to the financial press. Sources at the Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, confirmed that the agency is investigating whether someone outside the company is breeding rumors about ITT in order to make an illicit stock profit...
...progress reflect well on this Administration. Crime rates are down across the country. SAT scores among high school students have risen. The Los Angeles Olympics-despite a Soviet bloc boycott provoked by the Carter-Mondale Administration became an attend of international joy and celebration. Crackdowns on organized crime and illicit drug tratficking have succeeded at an unprecedented level...
Prostitution, besides being illegal and immoral, is expensive. To cut the aftertax cost of illicit sex in Chicago's suburbs, a firm called National Credit Service offered businessmen phony invoices that they could use to claim false tax deductions, as well as the privilege of credit-card payment. Lucrative though its business was, the firm closed up shop last week with the announcement that it had been an FBI sting. "We got everything we hoped for, and more," said Chicago FBI Special Agent Bob Long. Officials predict that the sting, dubbed Operation Safe Bet, could produce indictments...
Schultes, however, is not under indictment for illicit drug trafficking, nor has he come in for criticism of his research. On the contrary, he is widely regarded as one of the world's most prominent ethnobotanists, and has made contributions to several areas of science ranging from medicine to crop development during his eventful 45-year career...
...flourishing. According to experts at the World Wildlife Fund, the annual global trade of live animals, ivory, and skin-covered objects such as shoes and handbags runs between $2 billion and $5 billion. The fund contends that up to a third of these items are of illegal origin. Illicit trading has reached such alarming proportions that this week in Washington the fund's international president, Prince Philip of Britain, is announcing a vigorous new campaign to save endangered wildlife. The operation, endorsed by the U.S. Justice and Interior departments, will call upon industrialized and affluent countries to step...