Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During preparations for Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return, customs officials in Miami were seizing 100-kilo loads of cocaine -- instead of the typical 5-to- 50-kilo shipments -- off Haitian freighters. "We surmise the traffickers were trying to get it out in case Aristide did come back into power and try to put some curbs on this," says one customs agent. While a handful of Colombians in Haiti control the drugs, the U.S. is more interested in the role of Michel Francois, the self-anointed police chief of Port-au-Prince. "Sweet Mickey" controls the local docks...
...surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high of 32 francs ($5.66) per kilo to 20.50 francs ($3.62) per kilo, which should make the price of a bottle of this year's French champagne more attractive for most consumers...
...girls wanted to leave. I took the kind of girl no one would miss if she disappeared. Girls who were having trouble with their parents or who lived alone. So when they were resold, no one would look for them. It is as if I sold a kilo of bread. They buy them like that...
...twin sister are enrolled at Louisiana Tech University. "When I left last July," explains Gvozdikova, who so wants to blend into America that she calls herself Nancy, "I thought things couldn't be worse. Most anything worth buying was stolen and sold on the black market. A kilo of butter cost 400 rubles. Today, my mother just wrote, it's up to 800 rubles. How can she afford it? My parents earn less than 10,000 rubles ((about $15)) a month...
...ITSELF, THE COMMISSIONING OF THE TAREQ-901 seemed little cause for alarm. But Western defense analysts fear that Iran's first Russian-built Kilo-class submarine may be only the most recent sign of an arms buildup, the likes of which has not been seen since Saddam Hussein stocked his arsenal in the days before the Gulf War. In recent months Teheran has been negotiating contracts with Russia, Ukraine and China for everything from tanks to missiles and high- performance jet fighters. Iranian dissidents and Western analysts are also concerned about help the Iranians may be getting from Chinese technicians...