Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forget everything you ever learned about the U.S. government. You can toss it all -- the separation of powers, the electoral college and even the pocket veto -- into the trash can. Then pick up P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America's political system. You'll stop reading only when you stop laughing...
When U.S. agents do uncover a shipment, the cartel adopts new shippers, different routes and more ingenious deceptions. Federal agents took nine years to crack a Santacruz-designed lumber scheme. In 1979, a Cali operative was arrested with the name of a Baltimore lumberyard in his pocket. There, agents saw piles of mahogany boards sliced end to end, with pockets hollowed out and the tops veneered on. A few more clues popped up over the years, but nothing to pinpoint which planks, among the tons of lumber imported from South America, contained contraband...
...scale large enough to be effective would be very expensive: $30 billion over five years is an often mentioned figure. The Western nations are by no means sure they either can or should spare the money. "Why give pennies to a man with a hole in his pocket?" asks a top British official. The return to favor of Yavlinsky, an author of last year's drastic 500-day reform plan, is encouraging, but the memory of how abruptly Gorbachev reversed himself and spurned that plan after first accepting it is sobering...
...There is no such thing as exploitation. If you help someone with odd jobs, pocket any pay tendered -- you might earn the equivalent of a year's salary in rubles after just a few days...
...empire to the epitome of upscale sophistication: French perfume and cologne. The company introduced low-budget plastic atomizers for men and women at newsstands, hair salons and gas stations across Europe and the U.S. Multimillion-dollar ad campaigns touted Bic fragrances as "the naked perfume" and "Paris in your pocket...