Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine. Over the past 1 1/2 years, the handsome 34-year- old Cuban emigre has used a turn-'em-on and turn-'em-in technique to entice some 18 Florida and New Jersey women into setting up drug deals that led to their arrest. Instead of targeting street-level dealers and wholesale drug salesmen, Portell promised love and occasionally marriage if the women, most with no prior criminal record, would only set up a cocaine buy. When the deals went down, DEA agents were on hand to make an arrest. Defense lawyers charge that Portell's undercover work, for which...
...sultry former Miss India turned London party girl dates prominent newspaper editors, several Members of Parliament and a junior government minister. Using her high-level connections, she lands a research job, complete with security clearance, in the House of Commons. In her spare time she may have befriended an alleged Libyan intelligence officer, a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi's. As Professor Henry Higgins exclaimed in My Fair Lady, "How simply frightful! How humiliating! How delightful...
While the price of petroleum is still a long way from its $35-a-bbl. peak in 1981, the U.S. is sliding back to a level of dependence on foreign sources not seen since the oil-shock days of the 1970s. January petroleum imports averaged 8.1 million bbl. a day, up almost 21% from a year ago and surpassing domestic production (8 million bbl.) for the first time in more than a decade. The import surge has hampered efforts to shrink the U.S. trade deficit, and rising prices have aggravated inflationary pressure...
...have been content to step on the gas. Sales of light trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles, which generally guzzle more fuel than autos, have set U.S. sales records for four of the past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...
...Mono water, 100,000 acre-feet a year, 17% of the city's supply. The Mono Lake Committee, a courtroom adversary, says it sees an "incremental unraveling" happening at Mono right now. It wants the diversion reduced to 30,000 acre-feet to stabilize the lake at a safe level...