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Word: outness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The floods and mud slides that have devastated Venezuela--and that may have killed as many as 30,000 people--were an all too foreseeable tragedy. Millions of people inhabit Caracas' ranchos, the squalid shantytowns that cling to both sides of the 6,000-ft. mountains ringing the capital. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Entombed In The Mud | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Last week that deluge came--and it wrought what may have been Latin America's deadliest natural disaster of the 1900s, a grim closing note to the continent's century. Fewer than 2,000 bodies had been recovered as of late last week, and a reliable death toll was impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Entombed In The Mud | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

It's hard to think of anyone who could resist the call of today's roaring bull market. So when agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

The investigation began after authorities in Cartagena, Colombia, seized 386 kg of cocaine hidden inside containers of frozen fish shipped by a company with a distribution center in Atlanta. Drug agents subsequently opened their phony office and offered to launder funds for suspected traffickers. As it played out, agents picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

There's a danger that conservation groups will put out too many messages or that the anarchists who rioted in Seattle will discredit the whole movement. But for now, the greens are betting they can get more of us to think about what we buy and how our pocketbooks can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch What You Eat | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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