Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane and pineapple harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with a $200 million yield, dope growing has replaced moonshine as the favorite illicit enterprise. Harvesting of this year's crop begins in August and September, and experts predict a bumper yield. Says Bill Keester of the Oklahoma state police: "We've had a lot of rain, and we're blessed with good crops of everything. Unfortunately that means...
...Francisco, is a computer-age truant, so attached to the machine that he often skips school, rarely reads anything other than computer manuals and hangs out with his pals in a Market Street computer store, often plotting some new electronic scam. Barry (not his real name) currently boasts an illicit library of about 1,000 pirated (i.e., illegally copied) programs worth about $50,000 at retail prices, including such software gems as VisiCalc, the popular business management and planning program. Before security was tightened up, he regularly plugged his computer into such distant databanks as The Source (which provides news...
...times, this novel reads like one of Dashiel Hammett's hard-boiled detective novels, with violent action, illicit sex and a tender-hearted toughie for its hero. But Dunne's treatment of these people remains too sensitive and perceptive for this book to be classified in that genre. As the voice shifts from omniscient narration to eavesdrop on Shea's thoughts and colorful dialogue. Dunne makes us painfully aware of his hero's growing depression as he begins to believe that he is trapped--by what his girlfriend labels the self-fulfilling prophecies of despair and his priest would call...
...proposed addition would read. "Students are reminded that there are heavy penalties including imprisonment for possession or distribution of illicit drugs...
Only in Alaska may a person possess a small amount of marijuana. Yet almost anywhere in the nation it is possible to find stores selling pipes and other gear with which to enjoy the illicit weed. Called head shops ("head" is slang for a frequent drug user), they number about 15,000 and do an estimated $2 billion in annual business. But after an 8-to-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week, high times could turn into hard times...