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...kill five Americans for every compatriot extradited to the U.S. They have even placed a $300,000 bounty on the heads of U.S. narcotics agents, dead or alive. "These are very tough and mean men," says a Panama City banker familiar with the drug trade. "If you attack their livelihood, they'll fight you until the death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Above all, Siles, who in 1982 inherited a presidency that had changed hands 13 times in twelve years, is well aware that challenging his people's livelihood could bring about his political demise. Warns an aide to Roberto Suarez Gomez, one of the country's most flamboyant coca suppliers (see box): "U.S. pressures could lead to another revolution and a takeover by another repressive military government or, worse, by the leftists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Women who sought a livelihood could be shopkeepers, petticoat authors, peddlers or midwives. Perhaps the career with the greatest risk and the greatest social mobility was that of a courtesan. Fraser's wit any style are at their best in this passage...

Author: By Nadine F. Pinede, | Title: A Century of Change | 10/16/1984 | See Source »

...natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rescuing a Protein Factory | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...house system, and splendid Georgian buildings were being erected along the Charles River to house the undergraduates in unparalleled comfort and luxury. In the process there was a certain amount of cannibalization of real estate, and ladies who ran boarding houses for students were being done out of their livelihood. This did not sit very well with the city fathers. The relationship between "town" and "gown," always edgy, took a distinct turn for the worse. Some of the awe and respect with which the University had been viewed in earlier days by the rest of Cambridge had been eroded...

Author: By Marian CANON Schlesinger, | Title: In the Midst of Changes | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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