Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin to count how many people I knowwho used and/or dealt illicit drugs during theiryouth. Small time high school dealers are admittedto Harvard every year. "I kept over $300 worth ofacid in my mother's freezer for over a year [inhigh school] and I was dealing the whole time,"one junior told...
...excluded Spain from some of its own fisheries; when Namibia won independence in 1990, one of its first acts as a nation was to kick out the greedy Spanish. Canadian officials discovered that the seized Spanish vessel had been fitted with a second bottom for tons of illicit catch, and that it possessed illegal secondary nets to trap protected species. Many sources inside the EU say privately that there is "a lot of admiration for what Canada did." But at the same time, these sources recognize the political reality: that Europe's public admonition of Canada is "a question...
...study released last week highlighted the problem of illicit youth smoking in the city, Andersen said...
ALMOST 90 YEARS AGO, AN ENGLISHWOMAN NAMED ELINOR Glyn wrote a racy best seller called Three Weeks that had it all: Venice! Illicit passion! Making out on a tiger-skin rug! Eventually, inevitably, she was invited to Hollywood to write screenplays and dine out. At some point in her stay the industry entered one of its periods of uncertainty-or perhaps one should say one of its periods of more-than-usual uncertainty-and someone asked Madame Glyn what she thought might happen next. "Whatever will make the most money," she sagaciously replied...
...brother was a controversial figure who held high government posts, including membership on the P.R.I.'s executive committee, and has long been accused of shady practices, including diversion of public funds for his own use. There are also suggestions, as yet unproved, that each man knew about the illicit dealings of the other; whoever emerged on top of the postelection pile would be in a position to exploit his information to destroy his rival. When Ruiz Massieu was killed, he was the No. 2 official in the P.R.I. and slated to become party leader in the Chamber of Deputies...