Word: illicitness
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...excluded Spain from some of its own fisheries; when Namibia won independence in 1990, one of its first acts as a nation was to kick out the greedy Spanish. Canadian officials discovered that the seized Spanish vessel had been fitted with a second bottom for tons of illicit catch, and that it possessed illegal secondary nets to trap protected species. Many sources inside the EU say privately that there is "a lot of admiration for what Canada did." But at the same time, these sources recognize the political reality: that Europe's public admonition of Canada is "a question...
...study released last week highlighted the problem of illicit youth smoking in the city, Andersen said...
ALMOST 90 YEARS AGO, AN ENGLISHWOMAN NAMED ELINOR Glyn wrote a racy best seller called Three Weeks that had it all: Venice! Illicit passion! Making out on a tiger-skin rug! Eventually, inevitably, she was invited to Hollywood to write screenplays and dine out. At some point in her stay the industry entered one of its periods of uncertainty-or perhaps one should say one of its periods of more-than-usual uncertainty-and someone asked Madame Glyn what she thought might happen next. "Whatever will make the most money," she sagaciously replied...
...brother was a controversial figure who held high government posts, including membership on the P.R.I.'s executive committee, and has long been accused of shady practices, including diversion of public funds for his own use. There are also suggestions, as yet unproved, that each man knew about the illicit dealings of the other; whoever emerged on top of the postelection pile would be in a position to exploit his information to destroy his rival. When Ruiz Massieu was killed, he was the No. 2 official in the P.R.I. and slated to become party leader in the Chamber of Deputies...
...done-it mystery. The setting is the year 2024; the main character is Sam Frost, a convict addicted to "V," an illegal form of virtual reality. Sam is hired to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a posh resort where the rich and famous come for illicit "V" experiences. Sam is given four days to solve the mystery...