Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southeast coast. That is where, the captain has been told, he has the best opportunity to intercept a large shipment of U.S.-bound marijuana. Once past the channel, a smuggler has an excellent chance of reaching Florida or Louisiana, whose labyrinthine coastal waterways provide concealment for off-loading the precious cargo into smaller, speedier boats known as bullets...
...killings of four other Americans in El Salvador- three nuns and a lay worker who were found shot to death near the international airport last December-are still under investigation by the Salvadoran government, with precious little to show for it. The FBI and other independent investigators have amassed a quantity of evidence, including 16 sets of fingerprints taken from the nuns' vehicle and ballistics tests on the bullets that killed the women. Many of these clues point to the possible implication of members of the Salvadoran security forces, who were on highway patrol near the airport that night...
...what about the soap from Krasnodar's much vaunted factory? Following a local tip that he "go to the Black Hole, Dorofeyev found a 10-ft. breach in the factory's brick wall, through which workers peddled pilfered bars of the precious commodity for $7.50 a case. Security at the plant was so lax that Dorofeyev managed to parade right out the main gate, his pockets bulging with ill-gotten goods, without drawing more than an indifferent glance from the guards. The moral of the tale for Soviet shoppers: if you want clean hands, grease some palms...
...began re-examining their own policies on sources. "We are working at putting something in writing," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. Nowhere was the process so intense as it was at the Washington Post. Bradlee reminded the staff last week: "The credibility of a newspaper is its most precious asset. It depends on the integrity of its reporters. We must begin immediately the uphill struggle of restoring our credibility...
NEITHER FLEUR NOR AUTHOR SPARK has any timidity about recounting their stories--We don't know if the novel has any resemblance to Spark's own life. Fleur gives us precious little personal background. Fleur lives alone in a one-room apartment. She spends every free minute working on her first novel, Warrender Chase, named after its hero. Warrender, strangely enough, bears an uncaany resemblance--in all aspects--to Sir Quentin...