Word: shadier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women in Bangkok alone respond to the siren call of a business that goes hand-in-hand with tourism. And the get-rich-quick promise that tourists embody has also led to shadier enterprises: Thailand is already famous for its pickpockets, smugglers and heroin dealers...
...already renowned for his biography of Robert Moses, has come forth with the first volume of a biography which through its scope and thoroughness, begins to explain the mystery of the man. Although Caro strikes a tone of undue self-righteousness in his account of some of Johnson's shadier moments, and too often takes such episodes as evidence of both moral and political bankruptcy, he has, on the whole, produced an admirable work. Taking 768 pages of text to tell the story of the first 33 years of Johnson's life (his career to the point of his first...
...Sales in a good year can top $ 100 million. On the world arms market, that sum is a trifle, as Cummings is quick to note: "Let's be honest, the only arms dealers that really matter are the governments." Yet when governments or retailers (or shadier entities) want light arms - pistols, rifles, machine guns and the like - they most often come to Cummings...