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...complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite. "But after lunch, they get terribly cranky...
High over Cudjoe Key, Fla., Fat Albert sways lazily in the breeze, but he is in fact a tireless worker. This 200,000-cu.-ft. helium balloon is one of three deployed in Florida and the Bahamas that are on the lookout for drug smugglers and helping with other intelligence-gathe ring activities...
...planning on winding up with big conclusion on how clusive spring was in New England and how trying it was always to be on the lookout for good weather. A perfect theme for this time of year I thought to myself After all my freshman year it rained for two week straight in April And nobody really does anything in spring reading period but complain about how lousy it is outside...
First National was snared by a federal strike force that has been on the lookout for money laundering in New England, where some of the estimated $100 billion-a-year business has moved because of increasing federal scrutiny of banks in South Florida. An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in 1983 said that the Angiulo family, a reputed organized-crime group, had bought more than $1.7 million in cashier's checks from a First National branch in Boston's North End. Payment for the checks included $250,000 in cash. According to the Boston Globe, the branch gave cash...
...lobbying. "I didn't concern myself with the technology, just the regulation of the industry," he says. His own managerial style is fairly deregulated. He hates paperwork. "Most entrepreneurs fail, after they first succeed, because they can't really delegate responsibility," he says. "I'm always on the lookout against people who try to foist the authority for a decision back...