Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trade in Endangered Species, which is meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed the illegal commerce, but environmentalists have gathered evidence to the contrary. Now everyone who is worried about wildlife focuses on one question...
Isaza wrote that Epps threatened to "write on their records, call invited speakers, cancel events at local hotels and even `tell the [Harvard] Business School' about their illicit activities should they ever apply...
Kaleil D. Isaza '94-95 wrote in an article which appeared in Perspective on Monday that Epps threatened to "write on [the students'] records, call invited speakers, cancel events at local hotels, and even 'tell the Harvard Business School' about their illicit activities should they ever apply...
...Dershowitz added that such an illicit transaction "never is provable...
That was then. Since taking office, Clinton's passion for the issue has flared only once -- last week, when he stomped on Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for suggesting a study of the possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money...