Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, they intercepted more than 550 kilos of high-grade cocaine, packed and readied for shipment at a rambling ranch known as Villa Julia, and flushed it down a sewer in nearby Medellin. Four days later, in northern La Guajira province, squad members came upon 1,054 kilos of pure coke that had been stashed in lunch boxes, leather pouches and even official-looking CARE packages...
...This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering the mixture through tightly woven cloth, leaving a slurry. When this is dried in its turn, it becomes concentrated cocaine hydrochloride, so potent that consumption could lead to seizures or death. The pure cocaine is cut with substances such as sugar, talcum powder or flour to produce the high-priced "snow" sold on the street...
...takes 300 kilos of coca leaves to produce three kilos of paste and one kilo of pure cocaine. The markup in price, according to current U.S. estimates, is no less dramatic. A dollar's worth of leaves costs a trafficker less than $3 as paste and a consumer on the streets of Miami $315 as white powder. Smoking the much cheaper raw coca paste has therefore increasingly become a popular high throughout South America. In Bolivia a matchboxful of paste, enough to make 100 cigarettes, sells for as little as 50 cents. Warns Dr. Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist...
...whore and her adopted mother, Fevvers learns to extend her new appendages and fly. The one-eyed madam, who is nicknamed Nelson and wears the full uniform of an admiral of the fleet, witnesses the maiden voyage and exclaims: "Oh, my little one, I think you must be the pure child of the century that just now is waiting in the wings, the New Age in which no women will be bound down to the ground...
...other respects it is very much in the classical style. For one thing, it takes very seriously the imperial role of its ballerina, Martine van Hamel. In the past few years Baryshnikov has invited several innovative choreographers to work for A.B.T., and not all have been successful. With her pure, ample style, Van Hamel has been much in demand and as a result has soldiered her way across some very murky terrain. Here she is radiant, a naturally commanding figure. The ballet's astonishing high point comes when her partner, Clark Tippet, promenades her on pointe as she balances...