Word: illicitness
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...turnstile jumping seems draconian in comparison with other cities' policies, no civil liberties are violated if an existing law is aggressively but uniformly enforced. The "broken windows" theory articulated by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling is not intrinsically problematic: disorder does cause fear, which eliminates social control, inviting illicit activities. And it seems to be working: violent crime is down 49 percent in New York, compared with seven percent in Chicago and six percent in Philadelphia...
...m.p.h. They are about the only conveyance possible; roads and airports are scarce, and river travel is slow. Helicopters can survey the rugged Andean terrain for coca and poppy fields, for crude drug-shipping airstrips hacked out of the vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from...
...sources Shakespeare apparently used for his play but shapes this material to different purposes. Here the moody prince makes only a walk-on appearance. Updike's spotlight falls instead on Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude and her adulterous affair with Claudius, her husband's younger brother. The topic of illicit sex will sound familiar to Updike's readers, but the archaic Scandinavian setting and the regal gravitas of the characters involved make this old story fresh and moving...
Meanwhile, my friend is still smarting from her son's illicit weekend, which gave him the dangerous impression that his parents' rules don't apply when he's away from home. "I'm not sure what to say to the other mom without offending her," reports my friend, "but I know I have to say something." She'd better think fast: her son has a standing invitation to go back...
...easy to stop the trade. UNITA has already amassed a fortune from illicit diamond sales, enough to continue its hostilities virtually indefinitely. Diamond analysts calculate that UNITA made more than $2.5 billion from diamond sales between 1992 and 1997, and last year collected at least $225 million. U.N. researchers and human-rights lobbying groups put the figure far higher. By any estimation, Savimbi's 40,000-strong UNITA must be the richest rebel movement in the world...