Word: resorted
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...economy as well. Drug barons have built up a financial empire using the country's booming tourism industry as a kind of giant dry-cleaning service for narcotics profits. Traffickers and the politicians who protect them launder billions of dollars every year by investing vast sums in beach resorts, financial markets, shopping centers and other enterprises, such as Punta Diamante, a resort in the state of Guerrero that many investigators believe is financed with drug money. It is also widely assumed that drug traffickers who fiddled with Mexico's financial markets were responsible for some of the capital flight last...
...course, the only India we are ever shown in the movie is the secluded resort-paradise jungle where Sara cavorts on the head of a sunken idol, under the gaze of her Indian nanny. Sara's memories of India are similarly one-dimensional, painting the rather confusing picture of a land where elephants and tigers lie side by side, inhaling the scents of Indian curries...
...latest controversy arose after the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19. Rather was on vacation at the time, at a resort in Midland, Texas, but when he called CBS News executives shortly after the bombing to offer his services, he was told thanks, but no thanks. Chung, it seems, was already on her way from Sacramento, California, where she had been anchoring the Evening News. Never mind that field reporting is Rather's forte, that Oklahoma City was in his neck of the woods, or that the story was big enough for two anchors. There are egos to deal with...
...Oklahoma City tragedy to still what he has called voices of hatred and paranoia, President Clinton used a commencement speech at Michigan State University to address militia groups nationwide that advocate violence. "How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes?" demanded the President. "There is no right to resort to violence when you don't get your way. There is no right to kill people . Those who claim such rights are wrong and un-American...
...even the experts can explain why a few individuals or breakaway groups resort to violence against innocent people. "Most people have a lot of restraints-family or close friends. And they don't have the means to be violent," says Dr. Richard Wyatt, chief of neuropsychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. Militia officers themselves may stop some hotheaded individuals from taking up terrorist tactics. Sometimes, it is only after people have been kicked out of a group that they feel free to commit murder...