Word: opium
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...pretty devastating." Mexico has become a conduit for as much as a third of the South American cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana...
...ultimately hopes to cut smugglers off at the source by persuading producing countries to root out their drug crops. Yet despite an increase in cooperation from such nations as Thailand and Peru, many developing countries have mixed feelings about eradication programs because their peasants earn far more money cultivating opium poppies or coca plants than they would get from corn or cotton. Bolivia, for example, earns $1 billion a year from cocaine, its largest export...
...Despite its recent downturn, the dollar is still worth 19% more against many foreign currencies than it averaged from 1980 to 1982. That should mean cheaper imports in the U.S., but many American distributors have decided to pocket the profits rather than lower their prices. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, for example, has climbed from $135 an oz. in 1980 to $165 an oz. today, although the cost of the perfume to the importer has simultaneously fallen by about...
...eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass of celluloid which might be more aptly titled Raiders of the Lost Opium Den or Godfather III-The Chinese Syndrome...
...Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball ("It's straight poker...