Word: timed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different models, including several home versions, that are easier to use and much more widely available than earlier devices. Over the past year, many health clubs have doubled the number of machines for their members. Even so, supply has badly trailed demand. In some places club managers strictly enforce time limits to keep people from fighting over the machines. Those tired of the health-club hassle can buy home machines for much less than the $2,000 to $3,400 that professional models cost. The $400 Precor Fitness Climber routinely ranks among the ten top-selling items in the Sharper...
...Time was when monthly bills were simply an affront to one's wallet. Now they can be an assault on the senses as well. Cosmetic and fragrance manufacturers have taken to packing heavily scented promotional material into the envelopes carrying statements from credit-card companies and retailers. Fashion magazines have gone aromatic too, surrounding readers with unsolicited bouquets...
...offensive raised unrealistic expectations that the drug empires could be quickly crushed. Jungle labs were torched, properties and chemicals seized, and some 11,000 people detained. Today, with the war continuing but with fewer spectacular results to show for its efforts, the Barco administration is having a harder time making its case that the struggle is worthwhile. Meanwhile, the drug Mafia has struck back with more than 200 bombings and singled out and killed at least 13 officials. By the standards of civil war, the DAS headquarters would qualify as a military target and therefore part of the price paid...
...drug lords seem to be getting the message. An authorized spokesman for one of the cartels told TIME that Escobar, Gacha and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, don of the Cali cartel, recognize Barco's inflexibility and are waiting for his term to expire next August. Says the source: "They'll try to reason with the next President." But "reason" is surely a euphemism for "control." Through intermediaries, the narcos are putting money behind candidates for President, Congress and mayors of key cities. After election day, the bill will come...
Drug Enforcement Administration officials told TIME that one of Rodriguez's purported financial advisers, Panama-based Mauricio Vives, tried desperately to keep moving the money one step ahead of the agents. Vives called a British banker and told him to move several million dollars, fast, to an account in Luxembourg. If the bank were to delay, his Colombian client would kill him, Vives pleaded. The banker refused, and British authorities cooperating with the DEA froze the account. Not all countries were as helpful. U.S. agents said they tracked Rodriguez's money to the Cayman Islands, Spain and Montserrat, but local...