Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution in sight...
...also believe themselves to be enjoying a better quality of life. "I don't know what America has to offer me that I haven't got already and that I would envy," says British architect Ian Grant. "There's no intellectual challenge at all. The only challenge is making money...
...precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in connection with a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, was taken aboard a jet owned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and flown to his long-postponed rendezvous with U.S. justice...
...extradition of Martinez, President Virgilio Barco Vargas proved his resolve in the battle against Colombia's drug traffickers. Barco vowed to drive the dealers out of his country after the Aug. 18 murder of Senator Luis Carlos Galan, one of Colombia's leading presidential candidates. Martinez, 34, a reputed money manager for the Medellin cocaine cartel, was the first victim of Barco's executive order reviving a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty invalidated by the Colombian Supreme Court...
...abandoned fields wind up in the hands of ranchers and speculators who have access to capital. Thanks to tax breaks and subsidies, these groups can often profit from the land even when their operations lose money. According to Roberto Alusio Paranhos do Rio Branco, president of the Business Association of the Amazon, nobody would farm Rondonia without government incentives and price supports for cocoa and other crops...