Word: poacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late to do anything about the bill. The old bills are becoming extinct as soon as the evil "poacher" banks can get their hands on them. But there is hope that we can still save the future of the American currency: if we band together, we can save the ten, the five...
...everyday feeding of a household; it's a cameo, virtuoso performance in which every dish is used to produce an elaborate meal at midnight. Congratulations and a pass on cleaning up are expected--after all, he cooked! Men can prepare $20-per-lb. salmon in a $300 fish poacher, the cuisine equivalent of golf's Big Bertha, but tuna salad on whole wheat is beyond them. One avocational cook I know lit the grill, put a turkey on it and boasted during the half time of a Dallas Cowboys game that he was fixing Thanksgiving dinner...
...poacher Leonid was not in the same league as the Chinese syndicates. Preparing to meet the tiger seller in Krasny Yar, Galster had taken the precaution of taping over the recording indicator on his video camera so that he could film even when the camera appeared to be off. This turned out to be unnecessary, since the poacher even offered to pose with the skin of the year-old tiger he was selling. As we chatted, Leonid remarked that killing a tiger was a very bad thing among the Udege, but that it was O.K. for him to sell...
After pretending to examine the remains for quality, we got down to bargaining. Leonid asked for 50 million rubles (about $11,000) for the skin and bones. Following a rehearsed script, I said it was a lot of money and wanted to think about it. Galster gave the poacher my binoculars as a gesture of good faith. Later Galster reported Leonid to a local biologist and was told that this was not his first transgression. As we left Krasny Yar, Galster pondered the delicate problem of telling Vladimir Shetinin, the head of the Amba antipoaching team, that he had given...
...message at his Santa Fe headquarters. The caller wanted to assure him that if he sent another agent into the area, "you're gonna find him floating in the river." Tanner smiles. "That only means you're getting to these guys," he says. "You're doing your job." For poacher-hunting agents like Tanner, the big game is thick on the landscape...