Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economic growth by allowing the poor to leverage their dead assets into live capital. Greater security and official recognition of property title allow new home and business owners to establish credit, take out loans, and make long-term plans and visions for the future. Instead of hiding an illicit underground bakery in a small, unmarked shack, its rightful owners could put a sign outside, advertise, expand, and create lasting partnerships with delivery services, sandwich shops and grain producers...
...national Mohamad Hammoud will be sentenced on charges of running cigarettes from North Carolina to Michigan. But Hammoud isn't some two-bit crook trying to make a little extra cash. He's considered by the feds to be a dangerous terrorist. Hammoud has been convicted of using his illicit income to help fuel Hizballah, the Lebanon-based, anti-Israel terrorist army. For his crime, he faces up to 155 years in prison. Federal prosecutors are convinced he was a young extremist militant before he gained entry to the U.S. through Venezuela in 1992 with a $200 fake visa. They...
...company much good. The gray-market audience doesn't help sell ads, partly because the number of additional viewers can't be quantified and partly because local cable operators strip out advertisements from the media giants' clients and splice in commercials from local businesses, picking up a nice though illicit revenue stream in the process. Indeed, there is a noticeable dearth of revenue-producing ads on the Starry Sky channel...
...Revolution demands the leader’s amoral pursuit of ideological and political ascendancy whether through outright war, secret weapons programs or illicit state-funded terrorism...
...Administration intends to pile up as many instances of obstruction as possible. Iraq has thumbed its nose at high-altitude U-2 surveillance flights, refusing to guarantee their safety unless the U.S. and Britain stop patrolling the no-fly zones. The discovery a few weeks ago of Iraq's illicit acquisition of missile engines and purchases of barred chemical explosives indicates concrete violations of resolution terms. British officials have also compiled a list indicting Iraq for deliberately hampering inspectors during the past two months. They say Iraq has 20,000 intelligence officers engaged in disrupting inspections and concealing weapons. They...