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Word: reorder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Medellin cartel is experiencing a meltdown, there is no guarantee that Escobar will not continue to deal in drugs from behind bars. "Ironically, coming out of hiding could help him to reorder a business that became difficult to manage on the lam," says a Bogota-based U.S. narcotics expert. Skeptics say that Escobar could be free in as little as three years. That may be just the rest a tired don needs to resuscitate himself and his cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escobar's Life Behind Bars | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...says Fotion. "Let him abuse prisoners, attack cities, use poison gas. We have plenty of ways to fight him and still hold the high moral ground." That is not only the most pious place to be, but it is also the best vantage point from which to begin to reorder the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Options: Three Ethical Dilemmas 3 | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...delicious cheese products, whatever. In addition to the solicitation costs, commercial operations actually have to supply you with the product after you've signed up (and often a calculator or telephone or small sports car as a premium as well). These businesses, too, usually make money only if you reorder. But knowing that the money you send in doesn't even cover the cost of discovering your propensity to send in money grates more in the case of fund raising for charitable or political causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Check Is in the Mail | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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