Word: illicitness
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...leader whose policies and statements often irk Washington, had it coming. Instead, the White House chided the restored President: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice suggested that he needed to "respect the constitutional processes," sidestepping the question as to whether Washington had ignored legal niceties by moving to embrace the illicit regime change in Caracas just days before...
...bombings have proved highly effective. Presumably the Palestinians would be happy to fight the Israelis conventionally, army against army, but they have no real military. They have no tanks, no air force, no artillery--just a bunch of militias armed with machine guns and, if you count Hamas' illicit arsenal, some mortars and rockets. Israel, on the other hand, has one of the most powerful and modern militaries in the world. The asymmetry produces a lopsided body count. Since the fighting began in September 2000, some 1,200 Palestinians have been killed, compared with some 400 Israelis. That disparity feeds...
...Caspian accounts for about 90% of the world's caviar. While official catch levels peaked at about 30,000 tons in the late 1970s, myriad factors - including reduced river flow, destruction of spawning sites, poaching, organized crime, corruption and illicit trade - have contributed to a decline in the past 20 years. Before the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, that country and Iran controlled the world caviar market. They invested heavily in maintaining fish stocks, and tracking the source of any shipment was straightforward. In the post-Soviet era, though, that system collapsed and private entrepreneurs moved...
...mission of an aid worker is to distribute food and medicine. But the mission of a monitor is different because the sole duty of a monitor is to make judgments. An election monitor decides whether or not the election is fair. A weapons inspector certifies that no illicit weapons exist. When a peacekeeper does a bad job, he still manages to prevent some violence. But when an election monitor does his job poorly or a weapons inspector fails to find the weapons, the situation can become worse. We now risk such a problem in Zimbabwe and Iraq, if Saddam Hussein...
Ironically, Katz’s illicit copying raises the price for the honest buyers of coursepacks, since the more people who buy them the cheaper they get—there are fixed costs that get spread over more copies. How expensive does Katz think his honest-to-God textbooks would cost if they were produced for a print run of 100? Why does he think textbooks cost more than bestsellers...