Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this year, a Los Angeles Times investigation, based on hundreds of leaked documents, charged that museum officials had known for years that its suppliers may have been selling looted works. A former museum official says the museum did not buy anything it "knew or strongly suspected came from an illicit source." The Times also reported that the trust's president, Barry Munitz, has had the Getty spring for such perks as first-class plane tickets, yacht rentals and a Porsche SUV (which he reportedly directed should have "the biggest possible sunroof"). Because the Getty is a nonprofit institution, taxpayers would...
...Besides threatening to deflate my trophy case, this deal is dangerous on several counts. It assumes that if North Korea were allowed light-water power plants, the presence of international inspectors would preclude illicit bomb-making. But a study completed last year by my organization (the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, D.C.) detailed how a country such as North Korea could divert spent or fresh reactor fuel from a large light-water reactor to a small, hidden reprocessing or enrichment plant without inspectors finding out in time to block the material from being made into bombs. The U.S. State...
...really is simple: first set up some goals for yourself by writing out categories—i.e. books, clothes, food and drinks, illicit drugs (ahem)—and how much money you’d like to spend within each category. Then, record your expenses (take five minutes at the end of the day to write down how much you spent). And finally, reassess your goals in relation to your spending habits...
...most foreign investors want the cap to be higher?at least 49%?before they'll invest in Indian papers. Supporters of the cap point out that many countries have restrictions on foreigners entering their newspaper market?why shouldn't India? Then there's the claim that without the cap, illicit money could enter the local industry. "Would you want funds that have terrorist linkages to enter the media?" asks M.J. Akbar, one of India's most respected journalists and editor in chief of the Asian Age newspaper. Critics don't think much of that argument. Many feel that the real...
...having none of it. The former First Lady filed a 10-page petition before a Manila court last week asking for a restraining order to prevent an auction from being held by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), the task force assigned to track down the Marcoses' illicit wealth. "Enough is enough," she told reporters last Thursday. "What this government is doing to me is no longer right ... Why are they selling my jewels, which are mine and mine alone...