Word: illicitness
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...sake of the neighbors, on Taipei's hopping Nongan Street. The guests?all of them men?paid $7.50 apiece, then stripped down to their underpants, depositing their street clothes in lockers at the door. When Taipei police crashed one of the parties two Saturdays ago in search of illicit drugs, they found what they were looking for: ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana. They also found 92 guys in their Skivvies, plus substantial numbers of used and unused condoms. The headlines the next day described a HALF-NAKED CRAZY PARTY...
Rosenthal cautioned that such illicit use of prescription drugs poses a risk of overdose as well as “significant short term side effects and perhaps long term...
...destroyed, hidden or sent out of the country the hundreds of tons of chemical and biological weapons ... that officials claimed were present without the United States detecting some sign of this activity." CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, in a report alleging that the Bush Administration misrepresented the threat from illicit weapons in Iraq...
...foreign-policy victory when the President announced that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had agreed to dismantle his secret--and surprisingly advanced--unconventional-weapons program in exchange for improved relations with the West. Intelligence officials say they expect Libya's cooperation will help them further unravel the shadowy world of illicit-weapons supply lines--which is partly why they are disclosing little information on which countries have aided Libya's program. The deal provides "huge intelligence ... opportunities," said a senior U.S. intelligence official. "We'll be pursuing those opportunities...
...food and water. The fare must be paid up front and in full. The man assures Abdi Salan that the ride through the Sahara will be fast and trouble-free, lasting no more than 48 hours. The smuggler tells Abdi Salan that Sudanese security forces have cracked down on illicit trafficking, so it will be another month before the next ride rolls out from Khartoum. "Don't worry; you will wait," the man tells him. "And when it's time to go, we will find you." Still, the delay means nights spent sleeping on the floor...