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Cash seizures from the drug trade totaled more than $100 million last year in Los Angeles, topping the Miami toll for the first time. The city's Federal Reserve surplus--one way of measuring illegal money laundering--has jumped by more than 2,000 percent in five years, to $3.8 billion last year...
...purposes, this preaching to the converted has much less value than when less sympathetic people read a Perspective because we made the effort to bring it to their door. If we wanted merely to preach to liberals, we might as well curtail our Eliot House distribution and plow the surplus into Adams House. A similar kind of reasoning applies all the more to the conservative Salient, which can count on much less campus sympathy than Perspective. It is the people who will not normally take a Perspective from a rack that we need to reach the most. Thus...
Japan's pool of surplus capital being funnelled into other countries makes a retreat from foreign involvement impossible. Japanese investing abroad will demand that their government attempt to influence the policies and development of the nations where they have put their money...
...feat. The $2 million Pratt & Whitney machines are 17 ft. long and weigh more than 3,000 lbs. each. But two weeks ago, a military policeman at Utah's Hill Air Force Base towed the mighty machines through an unguarded gate and flogged them to a dealer in military surplus...
...better. About 15 years ago, he joined the growing number of Texas ranchers who are devoting some of their pastures to exotic wildlife. Now Indian axis deer, African eland, wildebeests, Grevy's zebras and sable antelope roam Bentsen's range. To help support his wildlife habit, Bentsen sells surplus animals. His ostrich chicks fetch $7,500 a pair. Several times a year he lets hunters take trophies from the surplus animals on the ranch. Bentsen is a lifelong hunter and also a dedicated conservationist...