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Word: illicited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether or not Pearl Jam's accusations against Ticketmaster are valid, law- enforcement officials are trying hard to curb the far more significant problem of illegal ticket scalping. According to authorities, organized crime is deeply involved in the illicit reselling of tickets. When a $25 ticket can ultimately sell for $500, the difference amounts to a large chunk of untraceable cash -- a phrase that is pure music to a mobster's ears. Police sources told Time last week that the Mob runs some scalping operations in New York and other large cities. Blocks of tickets earmarked by performers for charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'N' Roll's Holy War | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

Greed also comes into play. Although only two companies are authorized to produce the drug in Brazil, several underground laboratories reportedly sell it to people without a prescription. Health authorities shut down one illicit operation last year, after a TV-news crew showed how easy it was to buy the pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thalidomide's Return | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that Norway had violated U.S. law by hunting minke whales, but then failed to follow through with sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stick to Save the Tigers | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...jackals and other animals in a grotesque procession by cart and truck that leads ultimately to a series of tenements along a narrow, filthy alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their way to the east, frequently on the backs of Tibetans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Tigers on the Brink | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...London-based Environmental Investigation Agency called on nations to impose sanctions against Taiwan for failing to halt illicit trade in endangered species. EIA investigators offered evidence of the open sale of tiger parts, including skins, and a host of other banned animal products. Since then, illegal wares have disappeared from display shelves, but subsequent investigations by several environmental groups suggest that potions made from tigers, rhinos and other endangered species are still readily available. As recently as this February, an undercover probe sponsored by Earth Trust in four Taiwanese cities found that 13 of 21 pharmacies visited offered tiger-bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Tigers on the Brink | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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