Word: nets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drugs. Despite solid evidence that drug-laden planes and boats have traversed Cuban waterways and airspace for years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. agencies have no hard proof that the Cuban government ever sanctioned the illicit traffic. By nabbing such high-level comrades in the narcotics net, Castro could not help prompting such questions as whether -- and for how long -- he had turned a blind eye to the trafficking...
...gives Japan measured praise for its attempts to control commerce in endangered species. Says he: "Japan has gone from being the worst of the worst to being on a par with the worst of the European countries -- Italy and France." But on the issues of tropical logging and drift-net fishing, environmentalists are much more skeptical. Observes Japan's Yoichi Kuroda, co-author of a study titled Timber from the South Seas: "The government is simply talking about the rain forests. There is no plan and no thought to regulate the timber trade...
This joint commercial venture between historic enemies takes place in one of the earth's chillier, less hospitable locales. And when a huge net full of an incoming catch drops the body of Zina Patiashvili onto the deck of the Polar Star, the whole enterprise becomes icier still. Patiashvili had been a popular member of the Polar Star work force, dishing up food in the mess and making herself available to a goodly number of male comrades on board and, so rumor has it, to more than a few visiting American fishermen...
...Crimson reports that Harvard may net between $6 million and $12 million from its investment in a limited partnership fund attempting a $20.3 billion leveraged buyout of RJR-Nabisco. If the takeover were successful, Harvard money managers say the University would hold indirect investments in the cigarette company--the same company from which a Harvard committee on ethics in investment advised the University to divest in the spring...
...since 1965, the Presbyterian Church 25%, and the Episcopal Church 28%. As for two related denominations that mushroomed in the 19th century, the United Methodist Church has dropped 18%, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 43% after a de facto schism. Together, these five groups suffered a net loss of 5.2 million souls during years when the U.S. population rose 47 million. (In addition to these five denominations, "mainline" generally refers to the old, culturally established, predominantly white Protestant groups belonging to the National Council of Churches...