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Word: juste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The coke smugglers can accomplish this feat because they have plenty of help. They rely on a booming money-laundering industry that serves a clientele ranging from tax-avoiding corporations to the Iranscam schemers. The system depends on the collaboration, or often just the negligence, of bankers and other moneymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Once the money is in a financial institution, it can be moved with blinding speed. Communicating with the bank via fax machine or personal computer, a launderer can have wire transfers sent around the world without ever speaking to a banking officer. The goal of many launderers is to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Even the Soviets were flashing warning signs. Armed forces Chief of Staff Mikhail Moiseyev said the Soviet leadership should make no further concessions to the U.S., and noted pointedly that there are still too many disagreements to conclude a strategic-arms treaty by June. Gorbachev and Bush would have to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Despite these challenges, Bush is still buoyed by an element of good fortune. Gorbachev seems content to let the President move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The great variety of symptoms that confronted the Communists of East Germany and Czechoslovakia last week were not morbid, but they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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