Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some funny business is going on at Empire Industries. When Chairman Calvin Cromwell schedules an emergency board meeting, the vice presidents fly into a paranoid panic. The terrified executives are certain he has discovered their illicit affairs, embezzlement and Government bribes. A secretary prepares for the meeting by putting airsickness bags around the board table and supplying Valium and smelling salts. A ranting Cromwell finally tells his subordinates, "Someone on this board is responsible, and they're going to hang...
...scenes typify the vacility. Imagine an illicit afternoon rendezvous in a sleepy Argentine town. The afternoon sun filters lazily into the bedroom where the two lovers embrace. Take away the ambiance. Take away the romance. Leave the grunts...
...started out as partly a drug raid, partly a well-orchestrated publicity campaign. As a helicopter swooped over the horizon of Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, technicians on board directed the aerial spraying of selected plots of illicit greenery. Camera crews dutifully recorded the 20-min. operation. It was, said the Drug Enforcement Administration proudly, the first-ever aerial use of the potent weed killer paraquat on domestic marijuana fields. A White House spokesman hinted that similar airborne anti-pot hits might be staged this year in as many as 39 other states...
...misunderstand: in Arizona, as in every other state, it is still illegal to peddle drugs. But citizens who intend to sell illicit drugs in Arizona anyway are now obliged to get a $100 state license from the department of revenue. Still more curious, the law that went into effect last month requires that an official, yellow $10 tax stamp be stuck to every 1-oz. bag of marijuana sold, and a $125 blue stamp to each 1-oz. parcel of cocaine (or any other illegal drug). What is more, the revenuers must keep the names of all licensees confidential; otherwise...
...spawned, the great game fish face a hazardous course that only the fittest survive. Along the way they are likely to encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed to be cy-mag, a cyanide-based white powder that sucks the oxygen out of the water and turns every asphyxiated fish belly up within a two-mile area. Reaching river's end after such an ordeal...