Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dudley House cannot afford to try and keep its student body stable and at a high level at a time when the University needs to register more students, Jewett says. "The purpose of...any institution[at Harvard] isn't to protect or serve themselves but to serve [the community] as a whole," the dean says...
...Bolivia and Peru, where the cocaine trail begins, governments have made considerable progress toward cleansing themselves of corruption. While some high-level bribery persists, both governments must convince poor farmers that they should get out of the coca business and give up the $1,000 the cartel pays for each 2.5 acres planted in the leaf. The local poseros, or processors, who grind the leaves into paste, are paid even better, which enables them to . acquire four-wheel-drive vehicles and color television sets. "It is an unbalanced and unfair fight," says Juan Carlos Duran, Bolivia's Interior and Justice...
...business. Six of the detainees were Colombians believed to be midlevel operatives for the cartel. When Mexican federal police inspected a warehouse the Colombians used in Sonora, they found 100 AK-47 assault rifles, 65,000 rounds of ammunition, 92 bayonets and six infrared night scopes. Said a high- level Mexican official: "If Mexico allows itself to get caught up in the arms-for-drugs cycle that Colombia is in, I think the entire tissue of society could be in danger of collapse...
...result of DEA and Customs probes in Mexico, several senior officials have been linked to drug traffickers. U.S. investigators are also pursuing allegations that one Cabinet-rank official accepted payoffs from dealers. At the state level, corruption appears rampant. One DEA investigation tied a large drug operator both socially and financially to five former state governors and at least one current governor. "Corruption has penetrated all levels of the Mexican government," says a ranking U.S. law-enforcement official. "It's vertical, it's horizontal and it's total...
...making money and taking care of themselves and their life-style." It requires some dedication, since more time is needed to prepare grains and beans than to throw a chop on the broiler. Jamail's husband Randall, a lawyer, has been converting yuppie friends by boasting that his energy level increased dramatically after he gave up meat. "These are power brokers who don't need that 2 p.m. sinking spell," he says. "They want that edge, the extra stamina that gets them ahead...