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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chemical producers who have agreed to cooperate with the DEA in seeking to ascertain the final destination of the chemicals before allowing them to leave the country. In the case of the chemicals seized in Colombia, however, most of the batch numbers on labels had been scratched off by knife blades. Given how successful drug lords have been in using a dizzying tangle of middlemen and front companies to hide their activities, law enforcement officials may never be able to halt fully the chemical side of the drug trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs The Chemical Connection | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...effort may be futile, though, unless demand for the animals' tusks is reduced sharply. Ivory is fashioned into everything from billiard balls and knife handles to necklaces and figurines. Craftsmen have even carved tusks into ornamental replicas of AK-47 assault rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Last Stand For Africa's Elephants | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Feb. 13, 1989 | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Feb. 6, 1989 | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

That afternoon, following an airport run to greet returning players, he meets with a distraught girl. Huddled in the Olds' front seat, she tells a sad tale. Her unstable mother has threatened her with a knife. She's afraid to go home, reluctant to call the police. A struggling student, she lacks money for needed books. And she'd like to play for Upward Bound, but fears the humiliation of failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upward Bound Making a Fast Break Out of the Ghetto | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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