Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...
...agent specializing in narcotics. "It's so hot, it's killing people." He was referring to the growing tendency of heroin addicts to use "black tar," a smelly, dark- colored, often sticky version of the drug that is cheap, at about 20 cents per mg, and extremely potent: often 60% or 70% pure heroin. Conventional heroin, on the other hand, sells on the street at about $2.32 per mg and is rarely more than 6% pure. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has prepared a report citing the Mexican states of Sonora, Durango, Sinaloa and Guerrero as the main source...
...secret meeting in July, then National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane won agreement that diplomatic and economic pressures had not put a crimp in Gaddafi's style and that more potent measures were needed. Even Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has a deep reluctance to take military actions unless the results are quick and clean, for once was in harmony with Secretary of State George Shultz, who has consistently advocated retribution against Gaddafi and anyone else connected with terrorist acts...
...question is not an idle one. Beaming down approvingly on the crowds at Glycel counters and from glossy magazine ads at would-be customers is the image of a handsome, clear-eyed man--not a hunky male model, mind you, but an even more potent lure: Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The South African surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant is now, according to advertisements, the co-developer of a patented GSL ingredient, the key to "rejuvenating" skin in Glycel products. Barnard's endorsement is the latest and most successful wrinkle in the lucrative skin game. Introduced only last month...
...Knights don't have enough trouble already with Harvard's potent offense, they won't find the Crimson defense any softer...