Word: levanter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prices fall; when there is scarcity, prices rise. Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures in the past few months, along with the Colombian government's crackdown on the Medellin cartel, have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug on either the wholesale or retail levels. Contends Glen Levant, the deputy police chief in Los Angeles: "Surely this must validate our belief that there is much, much more cocaine in the pipeline than anyone thought...
...Philistines were a group of Aegean seafarers who arrived in the Levant region around 1200 B.C., settling between the Israelite tribes to the east and the Egyptian empire to the south. It was a time of great political ferment. The Hittite empire was crumbling, and Greece was entering into 500 years of decline. Says Hebrew University Philistine Expert Trude Dothan, a co-director of the Ekron dig: "Their culture was a unique product of tradition and innovation in a time of international catastrophe...
...comes a film about one of the most ignored empires of all time, that of the Ottoman Turks. At its height, this empire ruled the entire Balkan peninsula, Syria, Egypt, Hungary, even the Levant. But the rise of European empires in the 19th century hastened the decay of the Ottomans, who were ruffled by strong independence movements in Greece and European competition for Fgypt and Palestine...
...custody division, oversees a jail system that is larger than the prison facilities in any of 46 states. "But our projections show that by the time those are completed in five years, we will be more overcrowded than we are now." The city's deputy police chief, Glenn Levant, is unmoved by the shortage. "Our philosophy," he says, "is that unfortunately this is the sheriff's problem." He asserts, "I'm going to keep the prisons full...
...L.A.P.D. has recently tried to attack the "demand side" of the drug crisis. In the past month, officers posing as dealers have begun nabbing would-be buyers. The police are also confiscating -- permanently -- the automobiles of people who try to purchase dope through their car windows. Says Levant: "We are going to make life miserable for users until they realize that every dollar they spend for drugs adds to the violence in this country...