Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots like James Watt can collect $400,000 for a few phone calls to HUD, why shouldn't a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle get a few thousand for lobbying top officials face to face? That may have been the reasoning of Larry R. Smith, a Harrisburg, Ill., free-lance writer who received an invitation from George Bush to join the circle and submitted a $1,000 membership...
...international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a unique serial number, which is recorded in a computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt officials in collusion with traders continue to skirt the system...
...when the organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials struck with Singapore, Burundi and other nations, under which undocumented ivory could be registered, moved a mountain of ill-gotten ivory into the marketplace...
NATION: Did the U.S. fumble its best chance to topple Noriega -- or avoid an ill-planned blunder...
...current lack of faith in the council expressed by a large part of the student body is the result of a string of careless decisions that range from merely ill-informed to inexcusable. The net result is a Catch-22: Few students take interest in the council because the council doesn't do very much--and it doesn't do very much because nobody seems to care...