Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it became popular two years ago, crack, an inexpensive, smokable form of cocaine, revolutionized the drug trade. Now dealers have introduced a new marketing approach: crack pills. New York City police discovered the tablets during a raid last month. Sold with names like Press or PF (for performance) and still meant to be smoked in a pipe, the pills encourage brand loyalty and thus help pushers develop a clientele. What especially disturbs police is that anyone who comes across the aspirin-shaped pill may mistake it for a headache remedy and swallow...
...surfaced that Vincent Tese, a wealthy Chicago supporter who has become Cuomo's director of economic development, was soliciting money for a Cuomo campaign. Actually, Tese was calling business leaders to meet with Cuomo about the Governor's proposed bipartisan committee to develop policies on such issues as the trade imbalance and Third World debt. Cuomo responded to the reports with jokes and denials. "If I wanted campaign money," he said, "I wouldn't have to send Vincent Tese out; I would go to Vincent Tese...
...details. He warned that he would no longer allow funding from outside the country for those who rely on violence to promote political change. "We shall not permit the constitutional order in South Africa to be subverted in this way," he said. Many anti-apartheid organizations, church groups and trade unions receive contributions from abroad and will watch anxiously as the government spells out how it intends to take action and how it will define subversion...
Ronald Reagan moves these days with the look of a hunted man, expecting and getting questions from the front and flanks on the Iran mess. Other business, like trade, is often pushed into the shadows...
...American jobs that may be going to Mexican workers. The maquiladoras, thunders Victor Munoz, president of the AFL-CIO's 12,000-member Central Labor Union in El Paso, are "a scam, a con game. All they're creating is more profits." In February union workers surrounded a maquiladora trade show in El Paso with a caravan of trucks. Last week a team of U.S. analysts began a study of the border region for a House subcommittee that is examining the impact of the factories on the U.S. economy...